How long does it take to read The Confessions of Nat Turner?
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron takes about 7 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1920. 413 pages, about 113,575 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 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a controversial historical novel purporting to tell the story of Nat Turner, a black American slave who led a large slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. The novel attempts to explore the reasons for the bloodthirsty revolt in which Turner and his followers killed a number of white plantation owners before being apprehended, tried and hanged.
Subjects: Race, African American men in fiction, Virginia in fiction, African Americans in fiction, Slave insurrections in fiction, Slavery
