How long does it take to read Edmund Campion?
Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1935. 215 pages, about 59,125 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Edmund Campion was a notable English Oxford scholar that left England to join the Jesuits. When he returned to England, he was arrested, tortured, crippled, required to defend his religious faith in debate and subsequently hung, drawn and quartered for treason. From the preface: Since the day of his death, The Blessed Edmund Campion has been held in devotion throughout the English-speaking Catholic world, but when I undertook this work there was no life of him generally available. . . . There is a great need for a complete scholar's book on the subject. This is not it. All I have sought to do is to select the incidents which strike a novelist as important and put them into a narrative which I hope may prove readable.
Subjects: Biography, Christian martyrs, Christian saints, Jesuits, Saints, biography, Jesuits, england
