How long does it take to read The Golden Bowl?
The Golden Bowl by Henry James takes about 10 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 3 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1904. 548 pages, about 150,700 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 78 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A rich American art-collector & his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves & to their greater glory a beautiful young wife & a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte & Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in an antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw.
Subjects: Fiction, Americans, Art, Fathers and daughters, Adultery, Collectors and collecting
