How long does it take to read The Gentle Art of Making Enemies?
as pleasingly exemplified in many instances, wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right.
James McNeill Whistler
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler takes about 6 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1890. 340 pages, about 93,500 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Correspondence, Painters, Criticism and interpretation, Art criticism, Art, Biography
