How long does it take to read The Sun Also Rises?
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway takes about 4 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1926. 249 pages, about 68,475 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 215 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hemingway's profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
Subjects: Fiction, Historical, Expatriation, fiction, Americans, History, Brett Ashley (Fictitious character), Fiction
