About This Book
‘The best of R.K. Narayan’s enchanting novels’—The New Yorker Raju, a corrupt tourist guide, together with his lover, the dancer Rosie, leads a prosperous life before he is thrown into prison. After release he rests on the steps of an abandoned temple when a peasant passing by mistakes him for a hol...
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Reading Time Estimates
5h 39m
slow reader
180 WPM
4h 4m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 54m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 61,050 words📅 9 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
4 h 4 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 31 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
6 h 47 min
Audio 2x
3 h 24 min
That's about:
- 📅9 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇9 commutes of 30 min each