How long does it take to read Ten Days in a Mad-house?
Nellie Bly, BookCaps
Ten Days in a Mad-house by Nellie Bly, BookCaps takes about 1 hour 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1905. 98 pages, about 26,950 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 104 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the 1800s, journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be mentally ill and spent 10 days in an insane asylum in order to report on conditions and abuses there.
Subjects: Mentally ill, Commitment and detention, Psychiatric hospitals, New York (N.Y.)., Hospitals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
