How long does it take to read Youth?
Scenes from Provincial Life II
Youth by J. M. Coetzee takes about 3 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Scenes from Provincial Life
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About 3 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 173 pages, about 47,575 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Een jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse intellectueel gaat in de jaren '60 in Londen wonen om een groot en meeslepend dichter te worden.
Subjects: Fiction, South Africans, Young men, Roman, Historical fiction, Fiction, historical
