How long does it take to read Virginia Woolf?
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee takes about 16 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 21 minutes
A long haul
First published 1977. 892 pages, about 245,300 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times.Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth about her marriage, her feelings for women, her prejudies and obsessions. This is a vivid, close-up portrait, returning to primary sources, and showing Woolf as occupying a distinct, even uneasy position with 'Bloomsbury'. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. Incorporating newly discovered sources and illustrated with photos and drawings never used before, this biography is a revelation -informed, intelligent and moving.
Subjects: Biography, Biography & Autobiography, English Novelists, Nonfiction, Novelists, English, Authors, english
