How long does it take to read Adam Bede?
George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed, Najam Saqib, Gordon Frederick Browne, David Case
Adam Bede by George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed, Najam Saqib, Gordon Frederick Browne, David Case takes about 9 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 528 pages, about 145,200 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 543 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Adam Bede is a hardy young carpenter who cares for his aging mother. His one weakness is the woman he loves blindly: the trifling town beauty, Hetty Sorrel, whose only delights are her baubles-and the delusion that the careless Captain Donnithorne may ask for her hand. Betrayed by their innocence, both Adam and Hetty allow their foolish hearts to trap them in a triangle of seduction, murder, and retribution.
Subjects: Fiction, England in fiction, Infanticide in fiction, Women clergy, Infanticide, Carpenters in fiction
