How long does it take to read The Thirty-Nine Steps?
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan takes about 2 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Richard Hannay
Next: Greenmantle
About 2 hours 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1915. 116 pages, about 31,900 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 881 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
Subjects: Great britain, fiction, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, Fugitives from justice, Intelligence service, Missing persons
