How long does it take to read The Old Curiosity Shop?
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens takes about 10 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 10 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 569 pages, about 156,475 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 825 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters—the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness"; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp's brow-beaten mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell's purity.
Subjects: Fiction, Girls, Gamblers, Grandfathers, Antique dealers, Grandparent and child
