How long does it take to read Martin Chuzzlewit?
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens takes about 14 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 772 pages, about 212,300 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 290 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey – an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism – Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin's optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens's novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Description and travel, Travel, British, Fiction, Avarice
