How long does it take to read The Duino Elegies?
The Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke takes about 2 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 2 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1923. 111 pages, about 30,525 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 83 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
xiv, 389 pages : 28 cm
Subjects: German poetry, German Elegiac poetry, German Sonnets, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Polymers, Periodicals
