How long does it take to read The Perfumed Garden?
ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī
The Perfumed Garden by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1886. 250 pages, about 68,750 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 139 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Perfumed Garden is a sex manual written in erotic prose. It gives advice on bodily appearance, sexual technique, and also on the symptoms and remedies for sexual diseases. Al-Nafzawi also describes the sex of animals and interprets dreams. The advice and technical descriptions are interspersed with stories which should give the manual context and amuse the reader.
Subjects: Sex instruction, Sex education, Sex, Sex (Psychology), Love, Fiction, erotica
