How long does it take to read Fifth Business?
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Deptford Trilogy
Next: The Manticore
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 51 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross, and destined to be caught in a no-man's-land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy proves, in the end, neither innocent nor innocuous."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Guilt, Christian hagiography, Veterans, History teachers, School principals
