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How long does it take to read Being and Nothingness?

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre takes about 13 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 13 hours 8 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1943. 716 pages, about 196,900 words.

27 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 21 hours 53 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 13 hours 8 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 8 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 86 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

missing pages xiv and xv

Subjects: Existential psychology, Existentialism, Ontology, Phénoménologie, Ontologie, Existentialisme

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