How long does it take to read The Girls of Slender Means?
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark takes about 2 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 146 pages, about 40,150 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Girls of Slender Means is Dame Muriel Spark's tragic portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself - "three times window-shattered since 1940 but never directly hit" - its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.
Subjects: Fiction, Young women, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction subjects
