How long does it take to read The Prisoner of Zenda?
Anthony Hope, Gary Hoppenstand, Diane Mowat, Alan Marks, Francesc Ràfols, Andrew Pugsley, Summer M. Hogan, Summer Hogan, Smidgen Press, Charles Dana Gibson, Daniel Lanza Barba, Javier Fornell Fernandez, Stephen Colbourn, Katy Jackson, James Wilby, M. Robinson
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, Gary Hoppenstand, Diane Mowat, Alan Marks, Francesc Ràfols, Andrew Pugsley, Summer M. Hogan, Summer Hogan, Smidgen Press, Charles Dana Gibson, Daniel Lanza Barba, Javier Fornell Fernandez, Stephen Colbourn, Katy Jackson, James Wilby, M. Robinson takes about 3 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 41 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1800. 201 pages, about 55,275 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 627 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An adventure novel, originally published in 1894, set in the fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania. An English tourist is persuaded to impersonate the new king after he is abducted before he can be crowned. This act draws upon him the wrath of the Prince who has had the king abducted and his partner in crime the villainous Rupert of Hentzau.
Subjects: Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, action & adventure, Ruritania (imaginary place), fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction
