How long does it take to read What I Saw?
Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
What I Saw by Joseph Roth takes about 4 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 236 pages, about 64,900 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"... Roth's essays record the violent social and political paroxysms that threatened to undo the precarious democracy that was the Weimar Republic."--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Politics and government, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Intellectual life, History, Crime