How long does it take to read Titus Groan?
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake takes about 9 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Gormenghast trilogy
Next: Gormenghast
About 9 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1946. 506 pages, about 139,150 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 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the first of the Gormenghast trilogy and introduces the reader to Gormenghast Castle and its inhabitants. Lord Sepulchrave the Earl of Groan, his life an endless succession of meaningless rituals, Countess Gertrude, who spends her days secluded in her bedroom surrounded by cats and birds, her only source of pleasure. Their daughter Fuschia is there too, along with Sepulchrave’s eccentric twin sisters, Cora and Clarice and Mr. Flay, who leads Lord Sepulchrave through the interminable rituals of the castle. Into this world are thrust Titus, heir to the Earldom and Steerpike, a Machiavellian kitchen boy on the make.
Subjects: Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Comedy, Fiction, fantasy, general
