Cover of Pride and Prejudice
Reading time

How long does it take to read Pride and Prejudice?

by Jane Austen

At an average pace

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.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 7 days.

This estimate uses a representative 279-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is Pride and Prejudice?

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.

We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.

How many pages is Pride and Prejudice?

Catalog page count
279
Edition ISBN
9780679783268
Author
Jane Austen
Genre
fiction

These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.

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