How long does it take to read Of Human Bondage?
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham takes about 10 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1915. 589 pages, about 161,975 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 407 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Of Human Bondage is a moving exploration of loneliness, obsessive love, and a young man's search for meaning and direction in life. Written in the third person, it tells the story of Philip Carey, a self-conscious orphan with a club-foot who learns medicine. Not only is this a significant work in the Bildungsroman tradition, but its largely autobiographical basis gives it a special interest in view of the exceptional public success that Somerset Maugham was to enjoy over several decades.
Subjects: People with disabilities, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Physically handicapped, fiction, Bildungsromans, Physicians, fiction, Artists, fiction
