How long does it take to read Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence takes about 12 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1905. 700 pages, about 192,500 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 152 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. It was completed in February 1922, but first published in December 1926, originally published for the US market in 1927 as Revolt in the Desert and is the only version that was commercially released while he was alive. Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935) is a longer form of the book at almost double the page count and released to the international market.
Subjects: Arabs, Bedouins, Campaigns, Social life and customs, Wahhabis, Biography
