How long does it take to read The Man Who Would Be King?
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling takes about 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1898. 40 pages, about 11,000 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 460 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Kings and rulers, British, Afghanistan, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Afghanistan
