How long does it take to read Oliver Twist?
George Almar
Oliver Twist by George Almar takes about 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1838. 44 pages, about 12,100 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens’ Oliver Twist has captured readers’ hearts for more than 150 years. Today’s children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity…and through his goodness, he finds salvation.
Subjects: Fiction, Comic Fiction, Manners and Customs, Orphans in fiction, Criminals in fiction, Criminals
