How long does it take to read The Gold-Bug?
The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe takes about 1 hour 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 6 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1845. 60 pages, about 16,500 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 210 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The discovery of a message in code on a shoreline formerly infested with pirates sends William Legrand and his friends on a hunt for buried treasure.
Subjects: Roman policier, Motion Pictures, Television, Buried treasure, Adapted for Television, ABC Weekend Specials
