How long does it take to read Barnaby Rudge?
Charles Dickens, Eileen Warren Norris
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, Eileen Warren Norris takes about 11 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Master Humphrey's Clock
Next: The Old Curiosity Shop
About 11 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 607 pages, about 166,925 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 352 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Apprentices, Locksmiths, Anti-Catholicism, Fiction, historical
