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How long does it take to read Basic Writings of Nietzsche?

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Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche takes about 15 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 15 hours 30 minutes

A long haul

First published 1968. 845 pages, about 232,375 words.

31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 25 hours 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 15 hours 30 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 9 hours 41 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought.Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Subjects: Nonfiction, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy, german

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