How long does it take to read The House of the Scissors?
The House of the Scissors by Isobel Chace takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1972. 189 pages, about 51,975 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The only women who interested Lucien Manners, they told Arabella, were long dead ones - like Cleopatra and Dido and Sappho - none of whom had anything in common with an empty-headed mode girl, far too young for her age, whom Lucien had described as a "street arab". Arabella had better stop thinking about him...
