How long does it take to read The High King?
The High King by Lloyd Alexander takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of The Chronicles of Prydain
Previous: Taran Wanderer Next: The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 285 pages, about 78,375 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fairy tales, Maturation (Psychology), Magicians, Magic, Fate and fatalism
