How long does it take to read Barchester Towers?
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope takes about 9 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Chronicles of Barsetshire
Previous: The Warden Next: Doctor Thorne
About 9 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1815. 503 pages, about 138,325 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 467 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester. Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope finally found his distinctive voice. In this his most popular novel, the chronicler continues the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, begun in The Warden, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of "progress" Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. Love, mammon, clerical in-fighting, and promotion again figure prominently and comically, all centered on the magnificently imagined cathedral city of Barchester. The central questions of this moral comedy -- Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? -- are skilfully handled with the subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership over the last 150 years. - Back cover.
Subjects: Fiction, Clergy, Clergy in fiction, Social life and customs, England in fiction, Almshouses
