How long does it take to read Vepʻxistqaosani?
Shota Rustaveli
Vepʻxistqaosani by Shota Rustaveli takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1888. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 75 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This epic by the Georgian poet Rust'haveli has been the book of a nation for 700 years. It was expected that the text, based on a Persian original and reflecting Georgia's position as a crossroads between east and west, would be memorized by all female members of the country's aristocracy.
Subjects: Georgian Epic poetry, Poetry, Knights and knighthood, Aphorisms and apothegms, English poetry, Textual Criticism
