How long does it take to read Cloudsplitter?
A Novel
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks takes about 13 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 763 pages, about 209,825 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From book jacket: Narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
Subjects: american fiction, fiction, Antislavery movements, historical fiction, Fiction, historical, general, West virginia, fiction
