How long does it take to read The Gate of Angels?
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald takes about 3 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 167 pages, about 45,925 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Young Fred Fairly, a junior fellow at St. Angelicus College in 1912 Cambridge, falls in love with the dangerously mysterious Daisy, whom he awakens next to one morning after a freak accident.
Subjects: Working class women, Physicists, Fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, romance, general, Physicians, fiction
