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How long does it take to read Sybil?

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber takes about 8 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 11 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1973. 446 pages, about 122,650 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 38 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 11 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.

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  • abuse

How these are chosen

Subjects: Autobiography, Cas, Études de, Dual personality, Personnalité, Troubles de la, Multiple Personality Disorder, Patients

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