About This Book
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
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9h 10m
slow reader
180 WPM
6h 36m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 43m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 99,000 wordsπ
14 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
6 h 36 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
7 h 20 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
11 h
Audio 2x
5 h 30 min
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- π 14 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π14 commutesΒ of 30 min each