How long does it take to read The Natural?
The Natural by Bernard Malamud, SparkNotes takes about 4 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 237 pages, about 65,175 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 75 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.
Subjects: Baseball players, Fiction, Baseball, Baseball stories, Baseball, fiction, Children's fiction
