How long does it take to read The Pickwick Papers?
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens takes about 13 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 53 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 757 pages, about 208,175 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 539 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dickens’ first novel was originally written and published as a serial. It is a comedy relating the misadventures of the members of The Pickwick Club, whose main purpose is to discover and relate quaint and curious phenomena of social life and customs throughout England. This quest takes the members to all parts of the country, travelling by coach and sampling the comforts or otherwise of various coaching inns.
Subjects: Fiction, Men, Societies and clubs, Male friendship, Trials (Breach of promise), Social life and customs
