How long does it take to read The City Under Ground?
The City Under Ground by Suzanne Martel takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 55 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 159 pages, about 43,725 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The electronic city, Surréal, is run at perfection until one day, the Prime Mover, the source of electricity to this underground city, begins to lose power. Two teams of brothers begin to search for the reasons behind the loss. Their path leads them to break the city's highest laws, and finally to the world outside Surréal.
Subjects: French fiction, Cities and towns, fiction, Children's fiction, Science fiction
