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How long does it take to read Pride and Prejudice?

How long to read Pride and Prejudice
about 8 hours 33 minutes
about 122,000 words

Pride and Prejudice is about 122,000 words, roughly eight and a half hours — a long day or three evenings. It is shorter than the fourth Harry Potter book. The 1995 BBC adaptation runs 327 minutes, so watching it takes about two thirds as long as reading the novel, which is an unusually faithful ratio and part of why that version is still the reference adaptation. The 2005 film compresses the same material into 129 minutes.

The numbers

Total
8 hours 33 minutes
In hours
8.6 hours
Non-stop
0.4 days without sleeping
Covers
about 122,000 words
At a realistic pace
an hour a night
That works out as
about 9 days

What this assumes

About 122,000 words at 238 words per minute.

Other books

What How long
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone about 5 hours 23 minutes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix about 18 hours
The Hobbit about 6 hours 39 minutes
The Bible about 55 hours
War and Peace about 40 hours
Infinite Jest about 40 hours
Moby-Dick about 15 hours
Ulysses about 19 hours
Dune about 13 hours
Nineteen Eighty-Four about 6 hours 14 minutes
The Great Gatsby about 3 hours 18 minutes
Animal Farm about 2 hours 6 minutes
It about 31 hours
The complete works of Shakespeare about 59 hours
The complete Sherlock Holmes about 72 hours as an audiobook
All of English Wikipedia about 41 years

Common questions

How long does it take to read Pride and Prejudice?
about 8 hours 33 minutes — about 122,000 words.
What does that assume?
About 122,000 words at 238 words per minute.
How long at a realistic pace?
an hour a night — about 9 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked