How long does it take to read Burning Daylight?
Burning Daylight by Jack London takes about 5 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 41 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1910. 310 pages, about 85,250 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 405 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Burning Daylight was Jack London's best selling book during his lifetime. The book begins as a two-fisted macho adventure on the Klondike, as the hero--nicknamed Burning Daylight--becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush. After acheiving his fame and fortune, he finds no more challenge in the north and heads to the States for new worlds to conquer. He is flim-flammed out of his fortune by Wall Streeters, learns the lesson of dog-eat-dog, and becomes as much of a scoundrel as those who robbed him.
Subjects: Bankruptcy, Fiction, Gold mines and mining, Women pioneers, Fiction, westerns, California, fiction
