How long does it take to read The Artificial Silk Girl?
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun takes about 4 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours
A weekend read
First published 1932. 218 pages, about 59,950 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of Doris, beautiful and striving, who vows to write down all that happens to her as the star of her own life story. But instead of scripting what she hopes will be a quick rise to fame and fortune as either an actress or the mistress/wife of a wealthy man, she describes a slow descent into near prostitution and homelessness. Prewar Berlin is not the dazzling and exciting city of promise it seems; Doris unwittingly reveals a bleak, seamy urban landscape.
Subjects: Women, Fiction, Single women, Fiction, general, Single women, fiction, Berlin (germany), fiction
