How long does it take to read The Knight and Knave of Swords?
Fritz Leiber, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Davis
The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Davis takes about 5 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
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About 5 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 292 pages, about 80,300 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
While Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leiber’s fully realized, vivid, incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
