How long does it take to read Imaginary Homelands?
essays and criticism 1981-1991
Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie takes about 8 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 3 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 439 pages, about 120,725 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This collection of essays covers such topics as the literature of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression.
Subjects: Politics and government, Indic literature (English), Intellectual life, Essays, History and criticism, Essays (single author)
