How long does it take to read The Bridge on the Drina?
Ivo Andrić
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić takes about 6 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 378 pages, about 103,950 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 81 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A critically acclaimed novel, first published in 1945, describing historic and social events centring on a bridge across the River Drina at Visegrad in modern day Bosnia Herzegovina, originally built by the ruling Grand Vizier of Turkey. For almost four hundred years this bridge is crucial to the social life and wealth of the town’s citizens and equally vital to first the Turkish Empire and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Eventually Bosnia-Herzegovina becomes a republic in the new Yugoslavia, free for the first time in hundreds of years.
Subjects: Historic bridges, History, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Bosnia and hercegovina, fiction, Historic bridges in fiction
