How long does it take to read The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby?
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens takes about 14 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 768 pages, about 211,200 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 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 392 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
Subjects: Fiction, Young men, Boarding schools, Poor families, Theatrical companies, Death
