How long does it take to read Biggles?
W. E. Johns
Biggles by W. E. Johns takes about 1 hour 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 2 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1960. 56 pages, about 15,400 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Biggles is back! And with new retro-style covers he'll be bigger than ever!The Camel closed up until it was flying beside him; the pilot smiling. Biggles showed his teeth in what he imagined to be an answering smile. "You swine,' he breathed: "you dirty, unutterable, murdering swine! I'm going to kill you if it's the last thing I do on earth.'Set in the last years of the First World War air combat has now become the order of the day and air duelling is a fine art. Biggles and his fellow pilots now have to contend with the enemy using their own British aircraft, a Sopwith Camel, to lure the British pilots to their deaths...
Subjects: Children's stories, Fiction, Children's fiction, Flight, fiction
