How long does it take to read Mine Boy?
Peter Abrahams
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams takes about 4 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 251 pages, about 69,025 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mine Boy is a novel that talks about the problems the African miners experienced during the apartheid in South Africa. It shows the struggle of Africans to attain equal rights and to be treated as human beings with dignity.
Subjects: Race relations, Race discrimination, Blacks, Gold mines and mining, Migrant labor, Fiction
