How long does it take to read The Moon Is Down?
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1942. 144 pages, about 39,600 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 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 87 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A small coastal town in Northern Europe is seized with almost no fight by an unnamed army. The town matters because its port serves a large coal mine. The invaders' commander, Colonel Lanser, sets up headquarters in the home of Orden, the popular, democratically elected mayor. As winter arrives early, the townspeople are angry and bewildered, while the colonel, a veteran of many wars, tries to govern with a show of order and law. The novel, written in 1942, examines how a conquered community and its occupiers confront each other under force.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: War in fiction, Cities and towns in fiction, City and town life in fiction, Military occupation in fiction, Fiction, Drama
