How long does it take to read The Pyramid?
The Pyramid by Ismail Kadare takes about 2 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 54 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1992. 158 pages, about 43,450 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control – they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its neighbours plot and gloat…
Subjects: Fiction, Great Pyramid (Egypt), History, Fiction, historical, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
