How long does it take to read The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye?
five fairy stories
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt takes about 5 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1994. 274 pages, about 75,350 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction, Fairy tales, Fiction, short stories (single author), England, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, short stories, Women authors
