How long does it take to read The Social Contract and Discourses?
The Social Contract and Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau takes about 5 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1913. 287 pages, about 78,925 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Economics, Social contract, Political science, Politicsphilosophy, France
