How long does it take to read Stalky and Co?
Stalky and Co by Rudyard Kipling takes about 3 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1898. 200 pages, about 55,000 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 216 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a collection of short stories about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It was originally published in a series of stories in a magazine, then published in book form in 1899.
Subjects: Private schools, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), England, fiction, Boarding schools, Juvenile fiction