How long does it take to read The Hill of Dreams?
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1907. 176 pages, about 48,400 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 200 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrait of a doomed artist: a man not unlike Machen himself.
Subjects: Fiction, horror, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, biographical, Wales, fiction, Authors, fiction, Dreams
