How long does it take to read Dark Continent?
Dark Continent by Mark Mazower takes about 9 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 491 pages, about 135,025 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely balanced struggle between tolerance and racial extermination, imperial ambition and national self-determination, liberty and the tyrannies of Right and Left. It is an attempt to trace the origins of "Western values" - the ideological terms we now live by - and to ask what remains of the struggles of previous generations.
Subjects: History, Wereldgeschiedenis, Histoire, Europa, Historia, Europe
