How long does it take to read The White Goddess?
a historical grammar of poetic myth
The White Goddess by Robert Graves takes about 9 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1920. 511 pages, about 140,525 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, all true poetry. Incorporating all of Graves's final revisions, his replies to two of the original reviewers, and an essay describing the months of illumination in which The White Goddess was written, this is the definitive edition of one of the most influential books of our time.
Subjects: Mythology, Poetry, History and criticism, Welsh poetry, Philosophy, Goddesses
