How long does it take to read The Mansion?
The Mansion by William Faulkner takes about 8 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Snopes trilogy
Previous: The Town
About 8 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1959. 436 pages, about 119,900 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable postbellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: American Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Fiction, Manuscripts, Snopes family (Fictitious characters), Social life and customs
