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How long does it take to read The Song of the Lark?

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather takes about 7 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1915. 418 pages, about 114,950 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 46 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 47 minutes

The page count is the median across 409 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art.

Subjects: Fiction, Opera, Women singers, Children of clergy, Young women, Swedish Americans

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