How long does it take to read Dragon Seed?
Pearl S. Buck, Adam Verner, Ellen O'Connor
Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck, Adam Verner, Ellen O'Connor takes about 6 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1941. 358 pages, about 98,450 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dragon Seed is a fictional novel which describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937.
Subjects: Peace, American Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Families, Historical fiction
