About This Book
Le Père Goriot ("Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the...
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Reading Time Estimates
7h 38m
slow reader
180 WPM
5h 30m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 56m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 82,500 words📅 11 days at 30 min/day
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5 h 30 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
6 h 7 min
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9 h 10 min
Audio 2x
4 h 35 min
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