How long does it take to read The Star Rover?
The Star Rover by Jack London takes about 6 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1915. 329 pages, about 90,475 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 63 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In The Star Rover London indicts the savagery of prison life: San Quentin death row inmate Darrell Standing can escape his confinement and torture only by withdrawing into dreams of past lives during what he calls his "eternal recurrence on earth." Thus the fantastic becomes a vehicle for exposing social inequities and religious hypocrisy. Leslie Fiedler, Samuel Clemens Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an essayist, poet, and critic, provides an important introduction to this often neglected classic."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, California State Prison at San Quentin, Death row inmates in fiction, Reincarnation, Reincarnation in fiction, Death row inmates
