How long does it take to read The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent?
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent by Lionel Trilling takes about 10 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 582 pages, about 160,050 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Collects essays on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, and "Mansfield Park," and includes the preface to the author's "The Liberal Imagination."
Subjects: History and criticism, Intellect, Criticism and interpretation, American essays, Intelligence, Critique et interprétation
