How long does it take to read The Glass Palace?
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 560 pages, about 154,000 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Love stories, Domestic fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical
