How long does it take to read Stundenbuch?
Das Stundenbuch
Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Marie Macy
Stundenbuch by Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Marie Macy takes about 2 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 2 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1922. 111 pages, about 30,525 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.
Subjects: German poetry, God, Poetry, Continental European, Spirituality - General, Inspirational & Religious
