How long does it take to read The Return of the Native?
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1878. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 205 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.
Subjects: People with visual disabilities, fiction, Return of the native (Hardy, Thomas), Mothers and sons, fiction, Social conditions, Married people, fiction
