How long does it take to read The House in Paris?
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
To the stuffy French house come 2 children who have never met before to spend a few hours in the care of Mme Fisher's daughter before going on their separate ways. But has the past fashioned the path to this gloomy afternoon and tragic future?
Subjects: Girls in fiction, Girls, Fiction, English fiction, Fiction, psychological, Paris (france), fiction
