How long does it take to read Intellectuals?
Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson
Intellectuals by Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson takes about 7 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 385 pages, about 105,875 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.
Subjects: Intellectuals, Intellectual life, Modern Civilization, Vie intellectuelle, Civilisation moderne et contemporaine, Intellectuels
