How long does it take to read Waverley?
Sir Walter Scott, Peter Garside, Claire Lamont, Ian Duncan
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott, Peter Garside, Claire Lamont, Ian Duncan takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Waverley Novels
Next: Guy Mannering
About 8 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The story of Edward Waverley, a naïve, sensitive young man who is posted to Scotland with his regiment, and becomes caught between the clans of the Jacobite Rising and the forces of the Hanoverian regime."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Scotland, fiction, Fiction
