How long does it take to read Sons and Lovers?
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence takes about 9 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1913. 491 pages, about 135,025 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 332 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Published in 1913, this English novel by D. H. Lawrence follows Paul Morel, a young man whose emotional life is shaped by a close, stifling bond with his demanding mother. The family lives in a mining district in Nottinghamshire, where a refined woman has married a rough miner and found little satisfaction in a cramped, quarrelsome household. She turns her hopes toward her sons, and Paul, drawn to her yet wanting independence, becomes involved with two very different women. The story explores how these ties complicate his growth into manhood.
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Subjects: Fiction, England in fiction, Working class families, Young men in fiction, Working class families in fiction, Young men
