How long does it take to read The Kingdom of This World?
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier takes about 2 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1957. 149 pages, about 40,975 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 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 57 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Haiti, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical, general
