How long does it take to read Swallowdale?
Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome takes about 8 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Swallows and Amazons series
Previous: Swallows and Amazons Next: Peter Duck
About 8 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1931. 452 pages, about 124,300 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The four children return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. But if they can't have the island, there's always Swallowdale, the secret valley, hidden from the world and containing an extra secret concealed within it.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks, Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction
