How long does it take to read The Magnificent Ambersons?
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington takes about 5 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1917. 276 pages, about 75,900 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 194 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1878, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog.
Subjects: Fiction, Children of the rich in fiction, Mothers and sons, Social change, Inheritance and succession in fiction, Mothers and sons in fiction
