How long does it take to read The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin?
including an autobiographical chapter
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin takes about 10 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 31 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1887. 574 pages, about 157,850 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Naturalists, Correspondence, Biography, Autobiography, Science, Natural history
