How long does it take to read Shane?
Jack Schaefer
Shane by Jack Schaefer takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 55 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1920. 159 pages, about 43,725 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Shane is about a lone man of high principle,who gets caught up in a range war between the cattlmen and farmers.He sides with the farmers when the cattlemen hire a professional gunfighter named Wilson,a man against which the farmers have no chance.Shane alone must save the day.Frontier justice at its best.Circa late eighteen hundreds.
Subjects: Conduct of life, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Vendetta, homesteaders, character
