How long does it take to read The Wisdom of the Sands?
The Wisdom of the Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry takes about 9 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1948. 540 pages, about 148,500 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Parables, Despotism, Fiction, Berbers
