How long does it take to read Swann's Way?
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of In Search of Lost Time
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1908. 441 pages, about 121,275 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 636 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say I'm going to sleep. And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V.
Subjects: Comics & graphic novels, general, France, fiction, Early memories, Fiction, Social life and customs, Upper class
