How long does it take to read The Friendly Persuasion?
The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West takes about 3 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1940. 214 pages, about 58,850 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Episodic chapters about the Birdwell family, nineteenth century Quakers living in Indiana during the period following the Civil War.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Indiana in fiction, Quakers, Quakers in fiction, Short stories
