How long does it take to read Looking Backward, 2000-1887?
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy takes about 5 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1888. 276 pages, about 75,900 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 68 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A man being put into a hypnotic sleep, is awakened 113 years later to an entirely new social structure.
Subjects: Fiction, Utopias, Time travel, Two thousand, A.D., Social problems, Science fiction
