How long does it take to read The Turn of the Screw?
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1898. 160 pages, about 44,000 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 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 563 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
Subjects: Governesses, fiction, Children, fiction, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, fantasy, London (England), fiction, Social conditions
