How long does it take to read The Education of Henry Adams?
an autobiography.
Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams takes about 9 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1777. 505 pages, about 138,875 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 181 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Subjects: Biography, Historians, Massachusetts Historical Society, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Fiction
