How long does it take to read Jennie Gerhardt?
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1911. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 310 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.
Subjects: Fiction, Unmarried mothers, Unmarried mothers in fiction, Women domestics in fiction, Women domestics, Women household employees in fiction
