How long does it take to read The Sot-Weed Factor?
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth takes about 14 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1960. 806 pages, about 221,650 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem
Subjects: Fiction, Poets, History, Maryland, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, humorous, general
