How long does it take to read Patriotic Gore?
Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson takes about 14 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1962. 816 pages, about 224,400 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Includes material on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, the Battle hymn of the Republic, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frederick L. Olmstead; Mary Chesnut, John S. Mosby, Robert E. Lee, Alexander H. Stephens, Sidney Lanier, Albion W. Tourgee, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Ambrose Bierce, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Literature and the war, Literatur, Literatura y la guerra
