How long does it take to read A Soldier of the Great War?
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin takes about 14 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 31 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1920. 792 pages, about 217,800 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Roman student is torn from his carefree life when World War I breaks out, and fifty years later, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of his existence to an illiterate factory worker.
Subjects: Fiction, Older men, Aged men, Ancianos, Ficción, Fiction, romance, general
