How long does it take to read Robinson Crusoe/ Robinson Crusoe?
Robinson Crusoe/ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe takes about 6 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2000. 328 pages, about 90,200 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A vessel perishes on the rocks, and a literary legend is born.Robinson Crusoe is a tale of survival. The desert island is a test of self-sufficiency. Crusoe's Eden and enemy, his Utopia and his prison. House, clothing, tools, and attitudes are made for this new world, with a little help from the wreck of the old. Crusoe becomes a bourgeois on an island, and builds a country house. And in this new world he finds a true innocent, a Good Friday. As Providence supplies a companion, so at last it permits release: Crusoe escapes from island to munificence, taking Friday with him. Deliverance or perdition? Adventure story or spiritual allegory? The reader too must make what he or she can of Defoe's island.
Subjects: Shipwrecks, Fiction, Survival, Robinsonades, Reading materials
