How long does it take to read The Prague Cemetery?
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco takes about 9 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 33 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 521 pages, about 143,275 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false wills, even false deaths. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jews are blamed for everything. One man connects each of these threads into a massive crazy-quilt conspiracy within conspiracies. Here, he confesses all, thanks to Umberto Eco's ingenious imagination--a thrill-ride through the underbelly of actual, world-shattering events. "--
Subjects: Fiction, History, Antisemitism, Conspiracies, Political crimes and offenses, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical
