How long does it take to read Maggie Cassidy?
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac takes about 3 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 190 pages, about 52,250 words. Written for young adults.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Maggie Cassidy tells the story of Jean and Maggie, a couple of girls in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation whilst trying to mature in a New England mill town in the 1950s.
Subjects: Beat generation, City and town life, Fiction, French Canadians, Love in adolescence, Teenage boys
