How long does it take to read All Quiet on the Western Front?
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque takes about 4 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1928. 249 pages, about 68,475 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 225 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the hatred that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another... if only he can come out of the war alive.
Subjects: Fiction, German fiction, Soldiers, History, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical
