How long does it take to read The Prize?
The Prize by Irving Wallace takes about 12 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1962. 704 pages, about 193,600 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a group of honorees arrive in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize ceremony, the American novelist confesses he suspects the German physicist is an imposter. Before long, he finds himself involved with communist agents, a murder and a near-drowning... his own.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Nobel Prize
