How long does it take to read The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories?
The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata takes about 2 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1969. 149 pages, about 40,975 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Japanese fiction, Social life and customs, English fiction, Fiction, Japanese Short stories
