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How long does it take to read A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]?
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation] by Charles Dickens takes about 1 hour 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 46 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1992. 96 pages, about 26,400 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Grade 3 Vocabulary restricted to 3,100 headwords Illustrated in colour Lucie thinks that her father, Dr. Manette, is dead. Then one day a stranger tells her that Dr. Manette is alive - he has been in the terrible Bastille prson in Paris for many years and has just been released. In Paris, Lucie finds her father being cared for by a loyal ex-servant, Defarge, and his wife. Poor Dr Manette goes back to England with Lucie. A few years later, when Dr. Manette and Lucie return to Paris, everything has changed. The French Revolution has begun, and the poor people are killing the noblemen. Lucie's husband the kind Charles Darnay, is the heir of some of the cruellest noblemen, and the Defarges are now plotting to destroy him. Only love and great courage can save him...
Subjects: Fiction - General, English, History, reading books, Children's fiction, London (england), history, fiction
