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How long does it take to read Animal Farm?

How long to read Animal Farm
about 2 hours 6 minutes
29,966 words

Animal Farm is 29,966 words, about two hours — the length of a feature film, which is roughly what Orwell intended. It is technically a novella and is the shortest entry here. Four publishers rejected it in 1944, at least one on political grounds. It can be read start to finish in less time than it takes to watch most of the films on this list.

The numbers

Total
2 hours 6 minutes
In hours
2.1 hours
Non-stop
0.1 days without sleeping
Covers
29,966 words
At a realistic pace
one sitting
That works out as
about 1 days

What this assumes

29,966 words at 238 words per minute.

Other books

What How long
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone about 5 hours 23 minutes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix about 18 hours
The Hobbit about 6 hours 39 minutes
The Bible about 55 hours
War and Peace about 40 hours
Infinite Jest about 40 hours
Moby-Dick about 15 hours
Ulysses about 19 hours
Dune about 13 hours
Pride and Prejudice about 8 hours 33 minutes
Nineteen Eighty-Four about 6 hours 14 minutes
The Great Gatsby about 3 hours 18 minutes
It about 31 hours
The complete works of Shakespeare about 59 hours
The complete Sherlock Holmes about 72 hours as an audiobook
All of English Wikipedia about 41 years

Common questions

How long does it take to read Animal Farm?
about 2 hours 6 minutes — 29,966 words.
What does that assume?
29,966 words at 238 words per minute.
How long at a realistic pace?
one sitting — about 1 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked