How long does it take to read The Return of the Soldier?
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West takes about 2 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 15 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1918. 123 pages, about 33,825 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 95 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Country homes, Amnesia, War neuroses, Soldiers, Fiction
