How long does it take to read Good Wives?
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott takes about 5 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1870. 321 pages, about 88,275 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 105 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Three years from Little Women, this is the second story about the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and their friend Laurie as each grows from childhood into adulthood. Life promises adventures, fulfillment and painful trials along the way, marriage, disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all, each of them finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect.
Subjects: Soeurs, Femmes mariées, Fiction, Romans, Sisters, Married women
