How long does it take to read The Awakening?
The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes about 4 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours
A weekend read
First published 1899. 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 347 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics.
Subjects: Adultery, Criticism and interpretation, feminist fiction, Fiction, History, Interpersonal attraction
More by Kate Chopin
Works 3.9 h 
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition 8.6 h 
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Shorter Eighth Edition 18.3 h 
Perrine's Literature--Structure, Sound & Sense--Twelfth Edition 29.8 h 
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition 39.2 h 
The United States in Literature [with Three Long Stories] -- Seventh Edition 15.0 h 
