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Siddhartha-An Indian Tale — Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha-An Indian Tale

by Hermann Hesse

86 pages

About This Book

In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own sou...

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Reading Time Estimates

2h 11m

slow reader

180 WPM

1h 35m

average reader

250 WPM

1h 8m

fast reader

350 WPM

📖 23,650 words📅 4 days at 30 min/day

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WPM

Reading time

1 h 35 min

at 250 words per minute

Audiobook (1.5x)

1 h 45 min

at 1.5x narration speed

Audio 1x

2 h 38 min

Audio 2x

1 h 19 min

That's about:

  • 📅4 days reading 30 min/day
  • 🚇4 commutes of 30 min each