How long does it take to read The Aspern Papers?
Henry James, Robin Field
The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Robin Field takes about 1 hour 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1890. 105 pages, about 28,875 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 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 91 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, he is ultimately faced with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it at an overwhelming price.
Subjects: Fiction, Poets, Man-woman relationships, Manuscripts, Collectors and collecting, American Psychological fiction
