How long does it take to read The Scarlet Plague?
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London takes about 1 hour 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 25 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1910. 77 pages, about 21,175 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 71 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912.
Subjects: Fiction, American Science fiction, Plague, End of the world, Science Fiction, Regression (Civilization)
