How long does it take to read The Ballad of Peckham Rye?
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1960. 144 pages, about 39,600 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The welfare worker, Dougal Douglas, causes trouble for the residents of an industrial suburb when he becomes involved in their private lives.
Subjects: Fiction, Good and evil, Satanism, Suburban life, Fiction, general, London (england), fiction
