How long does it take to read The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin?
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc is about 54,000 words long, so it takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at the average adult reading speed for fiction (260 words a minute). On Scrolls it is 2,177 short chunks across 9 stories; at 10 minutes a day you would finish it in 21 days.
How many days will it take to read The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin?
It depends on how many minutes a day you read. At 260 words a minute:
| Reading a day | Days to finish |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 42 days |
| 10 minutes | 21 days |
| 15 minutes | 14 days |
| 20 minutes | 11 days |
| 30 minutes | 7 days |
About The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Maurice Leblanc’s first collection of stories about Arsène Lupin, the French gentleman-thief, first published in French in 1907. It ends with Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late.
It opens:
It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.
Stories and reading times
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin has 9 stories. The longest takes about 40 minutes; the shortest about 14 minutes.
| # | Story | Words | Time | Chunks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Arrest of Arsène Lupin | 4,239 | 16 min | 171 |
| 2 | Arsène Lupin in Prison | 6,011 | 23 min | 236 |
| 3 | The Escape of Arsène Lupin | 6,758 | 26 min | 283 |
| 4 | The Mysterious Traveller | 5,141 | 20 min | 212 |
| 5 | The Queen’s Necklace | 5,285 | 20 min | 197 |
| 6 | The Seven of Hearts | 10,295 | 40 min | 421 |
| 7 | Madame Imbert’s Safe | 3,687 | 14 min | 156 |
| 8 | The Black Pearl | 4,610 | 18 min | 189 |
| 9 | Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late | 7,677 | 30 min | 312 |
How to read The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin on Scrolls
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar is included in Scrolls Library, the Scrolls subscription. You can read the first story free as a sample before you subscribe. Scrolls shows it one short chunk per screen: swipe up for the next, the way you move through a feed, and your place syncs across devices.
How we worked this out
We counted the words in the edition you read on Scrolls, then divided by 260 words a minute, the average adult silent reading rate for English fiction in a review of 190 studies: Brysbaert (2019), “How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate”, Journal of Memory and Language 109. Fast readers will take less time and careful readers more; a Scrolls chunk averages about 6 seconds at that speed.
Other books on Scrolls
- How long does it take to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? About 1 hour 41 minutes.
- How long does it take to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? About 6 hours 41 minutes.
- How long does it take to read A Study in Scarlet? About 2 hours 46 minutes.
- How long does it take to read The Innocence of Father Brown? About 5 hours 3 minutes.
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