How long does it take to read David Copperfield?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens takes about 13 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 754 pages, about 207,350 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 846 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody cares for Dickens heroines, least of all for Dora, but take it all in al, l this book is enjoyed by young people more than any other of the great novelist. After having read this you will wish to read Nicholas Nickleby for its mingling of pathos and humor, Martin Chuzzlewit for its pictures of American life as seen through English eyes, and Pickwick Papers for its crude but boisterous humor.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, England, fiction, Boys, fiction, Stepparents, fiction, Fiction, coming of age
