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How long does it take to read Great Books of the Western World?

Volume 30

Blaise Pascal, Mortimer J. Adler

Great Books of the Western World by Blaise Pascal, Mortimer J. Adler takes about 8 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 56 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1990. 487 pages, about 133,925 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 53 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 56 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 35 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Discusses the selection of works for and purpose of the set "Great Books of the Western World" and provides tools for use with the set, including author-to-idea and idea-to-author indexes and a ten-year reading list.

Subjects: Anthologies, Books and reading, Indexes, Greek and Roman Medicine, Antologii, Filosofii͡a

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