The average reader reads at a speed of 250 words per minute (wpm). A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has 135 695 words, so the average reader would take 9 hours 3 minutes to read the whole book. How long would it take you to read A Tale of Two Cities? Read a paragraph from A Tale of Two Cities below to find out!
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