How long does it take to read Joseph and His Brothers?
Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann takes about 22 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 22 hours 8 minutes
A long haul
First published 1934. 1,207 pages, about 331,925 words.
45 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 36 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 22 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur. Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of <i>Joseph and His Brothers</i> that is worthy of Mann’s achievement, revealing the novel’s exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime. --front flap
Subjects: Bible, Fiction, History of Biblical events, Tion, Fiction, religious, Fiction, historical
