How long does it take to read Strange Fruit?
Lillian Smith
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 1944. 273 pages, about 75,075 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.
Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights movements, Fiction, Interracial dating, Lynching, Race relations
