How long does it take to read A Tale of Two Cities?
by Charles Dickens
8h 58m
134,475 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 18 sessions with A Tale of Two Cities.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 12 days.
This estimate uses a representative 489-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is A Tale of Two Cities?
A Tale of Two Cities is about 134,475 words, estimated from its 489 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 8 hours 58 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 A Tale of Two Cities?
- Catalog page count
- 489
- Edition ISBN
- 9780141439600
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- 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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