How long does it take to read The Marriage Plot?
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides takes about 8 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 463 pages, about 127,325 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation.
Subjects: Appreciation, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Self-actualization, Fiction, Self-actualization (Psychology), Littérature
