How long does it take to read The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays?
Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert, Justin O'Brien
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert, Justin O'Brien takes about 12 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 28 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 680 pages, about 187,000 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning. The Plague-written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant-is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic. The Fall (1956), which takes the form of an astonishing confession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is a haunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The six stories of Exile and the Kingdom (1957) represent Camus at the height of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting his characters-from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife-at decisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictional counterparts, Camus's famous essays "The Myth of Sisyphus" and "Reflections on the Guillotine" are all the more powerful and philosophically daring, confirming his towering place in twentieth-century thought.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Africa, fiction, French fiction
