How long does it take to read The Austere Academy?
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman takes about 4 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Previous: The Miserable Mill Next: The Ersatz Elevator
About 4 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 236 pages, about 64,900 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 38 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home 埐rufrock Preparatory School : they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse. Ages 10+
Subjects: Humour, Steampunk, Mystery, Gothic fiction, Absurdist fiction, Hermanos
