How long does it take to read Tartarin of Tarascon?
Alphonse Daudet, Carlos Cantueso, Tite Fée Tite Fée édition, Oliver C. Colt, Not Stated
Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet, Carlos Cantueso, Tite Fée Tite Fée édition, Oliver C. Colt, Not Stated takes about 3 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1800. 179 pages, about 49,225 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 205 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of the great light-hearted French classics. The book tells the story of Tartarin, a Falstaff-like figure, full of hot-air and bluster, who is persuaded by the fellow residents of the provincial French town in which he lives to go on a lion-hunting expedition to Algeria. He blunders along from one disaster to the next, involving a foreign con-man, a lady of easy virtue, and a blind lion, but in the end he comes out of it all smelling of roses. It is best read in the original French.
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