How long does it take to read The Deluge?
an historical novel of Poland, Sweden and Russia: a sequel to With fire and sword
The Deluge by Henryk Sienkiewicz takes about 10 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Trilogy
Previous: With Fire and Sword Next: Fire in the Steppe
About 10 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1888. 590 pages, about 162,250 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 149 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is Volume 2 of the Curtin translation, first published in 1898. This is NOT the more modern Kuniczak translation of 1991 that many people prefer, despite what you can see as the book cover on the screen.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Poland, Fiction, historical, general, Historical fiction
