How long does it take to read The Canterville Ghost?
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde takes about 1 hour 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 42 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1887. 93 pages, about 25,575 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 140 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance.
Subjects: Fiction, Ghosts, Fairy tales, Children's fiction, Ghosts, fiction, England, fiction
