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How long does it take to read The Price of Paradise?

Jane Arbor

The Price of Paradise by Jane Arbor takes about 3 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 37 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1982. 197 pages, about 54,175 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 1 minute
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 37 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 15 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Fern had refused to tramp the outposts of the world with her roving oil executive husband, Grant Wilder. So they separated. Three years later her father tricked her into a holiday on Maracca, an island in the Indian Oceanwhere Grant was now posted.

Subjects: Fiction, general

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