How long does it take to read Little Dorrit?
Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore, Adam Leverton
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore, Adam Leverton takes about 14 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 27 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 788 pages, about 216,700 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 305 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Children of prisoners, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Social conditions, Inheritance and succession
