The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920
How long does it take to read The Great Gatsby?
About 3 hours 42 minutes
185 pages at 50 pages an hour. 8 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. \--first edition jacket
How long does it take to read The Great Gatsby?
The Great Gatsby is 185 pages, so it takes about 3 hours 42 minutes to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 5 hours 17 minutes; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 2 hours 39 minutes.
How many days to read The Great Gatsby at 20 minutes a day?
About 12 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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