How long does it take to read Parade's End?
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford takes about 15 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 30 minutes
A long haul
First published 1950. 845 pages, about 232,375 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Consisting of four novels - SOME DO NOT..., NO MORE PARADES, A MAN COULD STAND UP and THE LAST POST - PARADE'S END is the story of Christopher Tietjens and his progress from the secure world of Edwardian England into the First World War and beyond. Tietjens embodies the values of that ordered, predictable, hierarchic society of pre-1914. Contrasted with him and portrayed with equal clarity and depth is his wife Sylvia—beautiful, arrogant, reckless—a symbol of the new times. Their conflict, the chronicle of a family and of an era, makes PARADE'S END both a gripping study of character and a work of amazing subtlety and depth.
Subjects: England, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Social aspects
