How long does it take to read Arguably?
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens takes about 14 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 776 pages, about 213,400 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For nearly four decades, Christopher Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles -- the principles of reason and tolerance and skepticism that define and inform the foundations of our civilization -- principles that, to endure, must be defended anew by every generation. Here, in Arguably, he invites readers to take a seat at a democratic conversation, to be engaged, and to be reasoned with. Astute, vivid, and uninhibited, Hitchens sets a standard for the essayist that has rarely been matched in our time. What emerges in this indispensible volume is an intellectual self-portrait of a writer with an exemplary steadiness of purpose and a love affair with the delights and seductions of the English language, a man anchored in a profound and humane vision of the human longing for reason and justice. (Source)
Subjects: Essays, Politics and culture, Essais (Genre littéraire), Politique et culture
