How long does it take to read The Hand of Ethelberta?
a comedy in chapters
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy takes about 8 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1876. 458 pages, about 125,950 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Impostors and imposture, Courtship, Wessex (england), fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, humorous
