How long does it take to read The End of the Affair?
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene takes about 4 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1951. 237 pages, about 65,175 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 74 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, of which he is the narrator. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous love affair with Sarah Miles - a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of that passion by retrac-ing its obsessive and tortuous course. By the time he has finished, his hatred for both Sarah and her husband, Henry Miles, has shifted to the God who he feels has broken his life - but whose existence he at last bitterly acknowledges. First published in 1951, admired and acclaimed then and since, The End of the Affair is a stunning and endlessly fascinating novel, an unforgettable Graham Greene classic.
Subjects: Adultery, Male friendship, Terminally ill, Loss (Psychology), Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Religious fiction
