How long does it take to read Every Man Dies Alone?
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada takes about 9 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 27 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1948. 515 pages, about 141,625 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Based on a true story, this never-before-translated masterpiece was overlooked for years after its author--a bestselling writer before World War II who found himself in a Nazi insane asylum at war's end--died just before it was published.In a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis, it tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Third Reich, Otto and Anna Quangel launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in.In the end, Every Man Dies Alone is more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order--it's a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what's right, and for each other.This edition includes an afterword detailing the gripping history of the book and its author, including excerpts from the Gestapo file on the real-life couple that inspired it.
Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement, Fiction, Nazis, History, Fiction, historical, Nazis, fiction
