How long does it take to read The Whispering Mountain?
The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken, Joan Lingard takes about 4 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Wolves Chronicles
About 4 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 258 pages, about 70,950 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 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the small town of Pennygaff, where Owen has been sent to live after his mother’s death, a legendary golden harp has been found. Knowing of the prophesy of the Harp of Teirtu, Owen must prevent the magic harp from falling into the evil clutches of its reputed owner, the sinister and diabolical Lord Mayln. But it won’t be easy. Owen and his friend Arabis are plunged into a hair-raising adventure of intrigue, kidnapping, exotic underground worlds, savage beasts...even murder. For only too late will Owen learn that Lord Mayln will stop at nothing to have the golden harp. Winner of the Guardian Prize for Fiction
Subjects: Fantasy, Courage, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction, Kidnapping, Juvenile fiction
