How long does it take to read Sister Carrie?
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser takes about 8 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1900. 450 pages, about 123,750 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 463 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.
Subjects: Chicago (ill.), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Young women, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mistresses
