How long does it take to read The Purloined Letter?
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe takes about 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 42 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1931. 38 pages, about 10,450 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 121 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in the literary annual The Gift for 1845 (1844) and soon was reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
