How long does it take to read The Moonstone?
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins takes about 8 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 446 pages, about 122,650 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,005 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewelry theft, East Indians, Police, Drama, History
