How long does it take to read The Fifth Column?
and four stories of the Spanish Civil War
The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway takes about 2 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 46 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1938. 151 pages, about 41,525 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War is a collection of works by Ernest Hemingway. It contains Hemingway's only full length play, The Fifth Column, which was previously published along with the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, along with four unpublished works about Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The four stories are about the Spanish Civil War: The Denunciation, The Butterfly and the Tank, Night Before Battle, and Under The Ridge. Chicote's bar and the Hotel Florida in Madrid are recurrent settings in these stories.
Subjects: Drama, Fiction, History, Spain, Spain in fiction, American drama
