How long does it take to read The Crystal Cave?
Mary Stewart, Mary Stwart
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, Mary Stwart takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy
Next: The Hollow Hills
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1970. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
WHO WAS MERLIN? Was the famed magician of Camelot and King Arthur's court really a sinister, all-powerful being from another world? Was he truly a Prince of Darkness? Or was he a man with the passions of other mortals? A man with unique intelligence and unusual gifts? Why was he so feared? How did he come by his occult powers? Why was the crystal cave so important to him? Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity, Myridden Emrys -- or as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood, haunted by portents and visions. But destiny has great plans for this no-man's-son, taking him from prophesying before the High King Vortigern to the crowning of Uther Pendragon ... and the conception of Arthur -- king for once and always.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, fantasy, general, Arthur, king, fiction, Merlin (legendary character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Kings and rulers
