How long does it take to read How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks, Isabel Núñez
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks, Isabel Núñez takes about 4 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1890. 251 pages, about 69,025 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 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 119 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").
Subjects: Museum of the City of New York, Photograph collections, Poor, Poverty, Social conditions, Tenement houses
