How long does it take to read The Quincunx?
Charles Palliser
The Quincunx by Charles Palliser takes about 14 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1989. 800 pages, about 220,000 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A young man searching for his origins is drawn from the Northern England countryside into the violent and corrupt London underworld of the late Regency.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Young men, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction
