How long does it take to read The Water-babies?
The Water-babies by Charles Kingsley takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 1863. 273 pages, about 75,075 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 | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 213 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a water-baby, where he gains redemption from selfishness as well as from drudgery. On to his fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues.
Subjects: Chimney sweeps, Fiction, Fairy tales, Children's stories, Children's fiction, Fairies, fiction
