How long does it take to read LA Colmena?
LA Colmena by Camilo José Cela takes about 6 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 381 pages, about 104,775 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The life of a vast number of human beings surviving in the arid times of post-civil war in Madrid.
Subjects: novel, choral novel, Fiction, History, Historia, Novela
