How long does it take to read The Hidden Flower?
The Hidden Flower by Pearl S. Buck takes about 5 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 308 pages, about 84,700 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Forbidden love between an American serviceman and an aristocratic Japanese young woman set in post-WW II Japan. This proves to be the source of great pain in an era of racial intolerance.
Subjects: Fiction, Young women, Americans, Fiction, romance, general, Young women, fiction, Japan, fiction
