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How long does it take to read The Magic Lantern?

The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague

Timothy Garton Ash

The Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton Ash takes about 3 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 4 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1990. 167 pages, about 45,925 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 6 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 55 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: History, Historia, Revoluties, Europe, eastern, history, Politics and government, Erlebnisbericht

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