How long does it take to read The Guermantes Way?
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust takes about 10 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of In Search of Lost Time
Previous: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower Next: Sodom and Gomorrah
About 10 hours 42 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1920. 584 pages, about 160,600 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 329 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which portrays fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, where the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and devastating satire of a time, a place, and a culture.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, France, Social conditions, Villages, Obsessive-compulsive disorder
