How long does it take to read The Phoenix and the Carpet?
The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit takes about 3 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Psammead
Previous: Five Children and It Next: The Story of the Amulet
About 3 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1903. 174 pages, about 47,850 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours |
The page count is the median across 438 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Five British children discover in their new carpet an egg, which hatches into a phoenix that takes them on a series of fantastic adventures around the world.
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction, Magic, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Great Britain in fiction, Magic in fiction
