How long does it take to read The Glass Castle?
The Glass Castle by Violet Winspear takes about 4 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 239 pages, about 65,725 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 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Out in the East they say that the mind of a woman is a jungle, and it is the one jungle in which a man should never get lost." That was the code by which Edwin Trequair professed to live. Why then had he asked Heron to marry him? More to the point, why had she accepted? True, he had much to offer her - money and his fascinating house, the house that had meant so much to Heron all her life, the Glass Castle - but Heron was not the type to marry for mercenary reasons. Yet her feeling for him was of fear and curiosity more than any other emotion. Could she ever understand such a strange, arrogant man? Or still less, make him a successful wife?
Subjects: Romantic fiction