How long does it take to read A Distant Mirror?
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman takes about 12 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1600. 704 pages, about 193,600 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Distant Mirror is a narrative history of the troubled fourteenth century in Europe, which the author presents as a reflection of the twentieth, with its world war and the threat of nuclear conflict. It surveys the late medieval crisis: plague, long warfare in France, a split in the papacy, roaming mercenaries, persecution of minorities, peasant revolts, and Ottoman advances. It also covers climate change and the lives of nobles, clergy, and peasants. Much of the story follows Enguerrand de Coucy, a French nobleman whose marriage to Edward III's daughter places him amid events.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Nobleza, Noblesse, Biographies, Histoire, France, Middle Ages
