How long does it take to read A Canticle for Leibowitz?
Walter M. Miller Jr., Волтер Майкл Міллер-молодший
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., Волтер Майкл Міллер-молодший takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Saint Leibowitz
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 72 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again becoming fashionable, as a hobby of rich men, at perhaps 18th or early 19th century level of comprehesion. A local lord, interested in science, comes to the monastery. What happens after that is an exquisitely told tale, stunning and extremely moving, totally different from any other After the Holocaust story
Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, American Science fiction, apocalypse, nuclear war, civilization, science fiction
