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How long does it take to read Suicide?

Émile Durkheim

Suicide by Émile Durkheim takes about 7 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 37 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1850. 415 pages, about 114,125 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 37 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 45 minutes

The page count is the median across 77 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

Subjects: Suicide, Suicidio (Psicologia), Problemas Sociais, Sociological aspects, Sociological aspects of Suicide, Soziologie

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