How long does it take to read Mason & Dixon?
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon takes about 14 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 773 pages, about 212,575 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 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house). Claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys, Cherrycoke tells a tale intermingling Mason and Dixon's biographies with history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication.
Subjects: Fiction, Surveyors, Frontier and pioneer life, Surveying, History, British
