How long does it take to read Pride and Prejudice?
by Jane Austen
5h 7m
76,725 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 11 days.
That is 10 sessions with Pride and Prejudice.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.
How we worked this out
Pride and Prejudice is about 76,725 words, estimated from its 279 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 5 hours 7 minutes.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
This is still a model, not a measurement. When enough ReadersGuild readers have finished Pride and Prejudice, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Pride and Prejudice at a glance
- Pages
- 279
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Genre
- fiction
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