How long does it take to read The Devil's Pool?
The Devil's Pool by George Sand takes about 3 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1846. 187 pages, about 51,425 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 90 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Devil’s Pool was written very quickly in 1846. It’s a pastoral novella set in her native Berry region and depicts a way of rural life that would pass away with industrialisation. The characters of the novel are not urban sophisticates but peasants dependent on the land, whose lives are closely knitted together in community, intermarriage and the connecting relations of villages and occupations." <sup>1</sup>
Subjects: widowers, family, rural life, marriage customs, Vie rurale, Romans
