How long does it take to read The Agony and the Ecstasy?
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone takes about 13 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 7 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1958. 715 pages, about 196,625 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 83 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mr. Stone gives his signature style and thought to this story of Michelangelo. He points out often in this book that Michelangelo, before beginning a work, asks what it is he is trying to capture in the moment of his painting, sculpture, or poem. So it is with Mr. Stone. He wants to portray, as close as he can find, the moments of the life of this artist. What shaped him, what he loved, what (and whom) he hated. At the moments Stone writes of. A great book, and one I hope to read again.
Subjects: Fiction, Artists, Biography, Biographical fiction, Artists, fiction, Italy, fiction
