How long does it take to read Free Fall?
Free Fall by William Golding takes about 4 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 253 pages, about 69,575 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Somehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of free will 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, Prisoners of War, Great britain, fiction, English fiction
