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How long does it take to read The Great Crash, 1929?

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Great Crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith takes about 3 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 47 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1955. 206 pages, about 56,650 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 18 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 47 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 22 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This classic tome is a detailed economic examination of the 1929 financial collapse written with wit and attitude.

Subjects: Depressions, United States, Crises économiques, Schwarzer Freitag, Weltwirtschaftskrise, Börse

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