How long does it take to read The Gilded Age?
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner takes about 8 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1873. 479 pages, about 131,725 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 99 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America in which Twain and his neighbor attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their time.
Subjects: Fiction, Legislators in fiction, Legislators, Political corruption, Businessmen, Speculation in fiction
