How long does it take to read The Mandarins?
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir takes about 11 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1954. 610 pages, about 167,750 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 62 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An ironic tale of life and love in the French intellectual class.
Subjects: France, fiction, Fiction, general, Women, Fiction, Intellectual life, French fiction
