How long does it take to read The Alexandria Quartet?
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell takes about 16 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 12 minutes
A long haul
First published 1960. 884 pages, about 243,100 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. The fourth book is set six years later. The work was reissued in one volume in 1962, and Durrell used the occasion to make "numerous" revisions. The 1962 edition represents his final thoughts. The four novels are: Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960).
Subjects: Literatura Expressao Inglesa, Fiction, Fiction, general, Egypt, fiction
