How long does it take to read The Young Lions?
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw takes about 12 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1943. 671 pages, about 184,525 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, war & military
