How long does it take to read The Mystery of Edwin Drood?
Charles Dickens, Samuel Luke Fildes, Charles Bernard Derosne, TC, John Cuming Walters
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, Samuel Luke Fildes, Charles Bernard Derosne, TC, John Cuming Walters takes about 5 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1870. 323 pages, about 88,825 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 598 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's fate remains a mystery indeed.
Subjects: Missing persons, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Choral conductors, Separation (Psychology), England, fiction
