How long does it take to read From Here to Eternity?
From Here to Eternity by James Jones takes about 15 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 12 minutes
A long haul
First published 1951. 829 pages, about 227,975 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 60 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood ... and, possibly, their death. In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair ... in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no other the honor and savagery of men.
Subjects: National Book Award Winner, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, psychological, United states, fiction, Fiction, Military History
