How long does it take to read Cold Mountain?
Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier takes about 8 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 449 pages, about 123,475 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 38 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great great-great grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.
Subjects: United States in fiction, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, History, Love stories, Military deserters
