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How long does it take to read This Side of Paradise?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes about 4 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 57 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1920. 270 pages, about 74,250 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 15 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 57 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 6 minutes

The page count is the median across 631 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation."

Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical", Young men, fiction, Advertising, Veterans

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