How long does it take to read The Reveries of the Solitary Walker?
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau takes about 4 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 245 pages, about 67,375 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the first great writers to express in all its force the agony of isolation and alienation. In Reveries of the Solitary Walker, ten meditations written in the two years before his death in 1778 and published anonymously in 1792, Rousseau records his state of mind as he walked around Paris, looking at plants and day-dreaming. He goes back over much of his earlier life in an attempt to justify his actions and beliefs, to understand his contradictory impulses and to define the conditions of true happiness. Combining abstract thought, lively anecdote and passages of great evocative power, the Reveries provide an excellent introduction to the complex and fascinating world of one of France's most influential writers..." -- Back cover.
