How long does it take to read The Calcutta Chromosome?
a novel of fevers, delirium & discovery
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1924. 309 pages, about 84,975 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A computer operator in New York stumbles on information regarding an experiment in 1895 Calcutta to change people. In the experiment, mosquitos were used to transfer chromosomes from one person to another.
Subjects: Fiction, Predestination in fiction, Predestination, India in fiction, Scientists, Fiction, medical
