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