How long does it take to read For Whom the Bell Tolls?
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1940. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 185 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- abuse
- war
Subjects: Spain in fiction, Fiction, History, Spanish Civil War, Americans, Guerrilla warfare
