How long does it take to read The Secret Garden?
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett takes about 4 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1911. 257 pages, about 70,675 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,598 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Friendship, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Child and youth fiction, Children's fiction
