How long does it take to read Europe Central?
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann takes about 14 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 811 pages, about 223,025 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional—a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression. Through these and other lives, Vollmann offers a daring and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.
Subjects: Social life and customs, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Germany, fiction, Soviet union, fiction
