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How long does it take to read La Débâcle?

Émile Zola

La Débâcle by Émile Zola takes about 10 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 19 of Les Rougon-Macquart

Previous: L'Argent Next: Doctor Pascal

About 10 hours 9 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1892. 554 pages, about 152,350 words.

21 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 16 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 10 hours 9 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 21 minutes

The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

646 p. ; 19 cm

Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, war & military, Paris (france), fiction

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