How long does it take to read The Financier?
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser takes about 9 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Trilogy of desire
Next: The Titan
About 9 hours 36 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1912. 524 pages, about 144,100 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours |
The page count is the median across 352 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as The Financier. The second part appeared in 1914 as The Titan; the third volume of his Trilogy of Desire was also Dreiser's final novel, The Stoic (1947).
Subjects: Classics, Capitalists and financiers, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Trilogy of Desire, Fiction, psychological
