How long does it take to read Augustine of Hippo?
Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown takes about 8 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1967. 463 pages, about 127,325 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.
Subjects: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Christian saints, Biographie, Biography, Biografie, Bishops
