How long does it take to read Death Comes for the Archbishop?
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather takes about 5 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1732. 299 pages, about 82,225 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 342 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.
Subjects: Fiction, Clergy, History, Missions, Hopi Indians, Navajo Indians
