How long does it take to read [Works?
[Works by Charles Dickens takes about 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 37 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1800. 34 pages, about 9,350 words.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 40 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dickens died before completing his last novel, leaving its mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to try and work out what happened next.
Subjects: Fiction, media tie-in, England, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Separation (Psychology)
