How long does it take to read The Elegance of the Hedgehog?
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery takes about 5 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 325 pages, about 89,375 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence. Her secret is discovered by a young resident of the building named Paloma. The novel is narrated alternately by each of these two characters. First released in August 2006 by Gallimard, the novel became a bestseller of over a million copies.
Subjects: Apartment dwellers, class in fiction, Apartment concierges, Fiction, philosophical novel, Fiction, general
