About This Book
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's a...
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11h 58m
slow reader
180 WPM
8h 37m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 9m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 129,250 wordsπ
18 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
8 h 37 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
9 h 34 min
at 1.5x narration speed
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14 h 22 min
Audio 2x
7 h 11 min
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- π 18 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
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