How long does it take to read The Promise?
The Promise by Chaim Potok takes about 7 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours
A weekend read
First published 1969. 382 pages, about 105,050 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Two young men question the "orthodoxy" of values and religion in a world cut off from their Hasidic traditions.
Subjects: Psychologists, Schizophrenia in adolescence, Fiction, Rabbis, Fiction, psychological, Rabbis, fiction
