How long does it take to read Greenmantle?
Greenmantle by John Buchan takes about 4 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Richard Hannay
Previous: The Thirty-nine Steps Next: Mr Standfast
About 4 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1915. 252 pages, about 69,300 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 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 521 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border toface their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.
Subjects: Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Richard Hannay (Fictitious character), Mystery, Fiction
