How long does it take to read The Small House at Allington?
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope takes about 11 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1864. 611 pages, about 168,025 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours |
The page count is the median across 73 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 5: The Small House at Allington The Small House at Allington introduces Trollope's most charming heroine, the betwitching Lily Dale, onto the Barsetshire scene. She so endeared herself to readers of the Cornhill Magazine, where A Small House was first published in serial form, that Trollope was bombarded by letters begging him to marry her to her lifelong adorer Johnny Eames. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the "Great House" at Allington. His sister-in-law lives at the adjacent "Small House" with her two daughters Lily and Bell, and the action centers on the relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements of the two girls. We also meet Sir Raffle Buffle, the bullying head of a government department, the heartless Lady Dumbello, and the shallow Adolphus Crosbie, who gets his just deserts in the form of the frigid Lady Alexandrina de Courcy. Trollope's characteristic theme of the invasion of a pastoral, conservative world by brash and progressive forces from London gives him an opportunity in this novel for vivid, contrasting descriptions of gracious country living, with croquet and tea on the lawn, and of the cut and thrust of London life in the 1860s. - Back cover.
Subjects: Fiction, Clergy, Social life and customs, Fiction, general, Manners and customs, Fiction, historical, general
