How long does it take to read The Sea of Fertility?
The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima takes about 15 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 6 minutes
A long haul
First published 1968. 824 pages, about 226,600 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Yukio Mishima's The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda's pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki -- this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Tōru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Tōru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan's courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima's apocalyptic vision of the modern era." -- Publisher's description
Subjects: Fiction, Japan -- Fiction., Fiction, short stories (single author), Japan, fiction, Japanese fiction
