How long does it take to read Daniel Deronda?
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot takes about 13 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 727 pages, about 199,925 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 92 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young Jewish woman Mirah, he becomes involved in a search for her lost family and finds himself drawn into ever-deeper sympathies with Jewish aspirations and identity. 'I meant everything in the book to be related to everything else', wrote George Eliot of her last and most ambitious novel, and in weaving her plot strands together she created a bold and richly textured picture of British society and the Jewish experience within it.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, Jews in fiction, England in fiction, Zionists in fiction, Zionists
