About This Book
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongs...
Reading Time Estimates
0h 49m
slow reader
180 WPM
0h 35m
average reader
250 WPM
0h 25m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 8,800 words📅 2 days at 30 min/day
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WPM
Reading time
35 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
39 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
59 min
Audio 2x
29 min
That's about:
- 📅2 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇2 commutes of 30 min each