READING TIME · JANE AUSTEN · 1814

How long does it take to read Mansfield Park?

At an average reading speed, about 10 hours 15 minutes. Mansfield Park is 159,927 words long, in 48 chapters.

WORDS: 159,927
CHAPTERS: 48
READING LEVEL: About grade 9 (Flesch–Kincaid)

Reading time at different speeds

Total reading time for Mansfield Park at three reading speeds
Reader	Speed	Whole book
Unhurried	200 words a minute	13 h 20 min
Average adult reader	260 words a minute	10 h 15 min
Quick reader	320 words a minute	8 h 20 min

To finish it at a steady pace:

20 minutes a day: about 31 days
30 minutes a day: about 21 days
60 minutes a day: about 11 days

How many chapters are in Mansfield Park?

Mansfield Park has 48 chapters. The longest is Chapter 32 (5,131 words, 20 min); the shortest is Chapter 39 (1,590 words, 6 min). The average chapter takes 13 min.

Reading times below are at 260 words a minute.

Words and reading time for each chapter of Mansfield Park
Chapter	Words	Reading time	Practice in Parlor
Chapter 1	3,111	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 2	3,679	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 3	3,749	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 4	3,448	13 min	Check it →
Chapter 5	2,864	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 6	3,837	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 7	4,253	16 min	Check it →
Chapter 8	2,823	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 9	4,477	17 min	Check it →
Chapter 10	3,339	13 min	Check it →
Chapter 11	2,411	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 12	2,259	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 13	3,153	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 14	2,632	10 min	Check it →
Chapter 15	3,932	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 16	2,489	10 min	Check it →
Chapter 17	1,925	7 min	Check it →
Chapter 18	3,122	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 19	4,173	16 min	Check it →
Chapter 20	2,925	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 21	2,975	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 22	4,034	16 min	Check it →
Chapter 23	4,022	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 24	3,165	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 25	4,887	19 min	Check it →
Chapter 26	3,095	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 27	3,919	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 28	3,337	13 min	Check it →
Chapter 29	2,911	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 30	2,488	10 min	Check it →
Chapter 31	3,723	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 32	5,131	20 min	Check it →
Chapter 33	2,810	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 34	3,917	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 35	3,732	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 36	3,536	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 37	3,194	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 38	4,771	18 min	Check it →
Chapter 39	1,590	6 min	Check it →
Chapter 40	2,228	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 41	2,976	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 42	2,214	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 43	1,777	7 min	Check it →
Chapter 44	3,253	13 min	Check it →
Chapter 45	2,912	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 46	3,669	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 47	4,555	18 min	Check it →
Chapter 48	4,505	17 min	Check it →

READING IT FOR CLASS?

Knowing how long it takes is one thing. Understanding it is another.

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How these numbers were worked out

Words are counted in Mansfield Park, Project Gutenberg eBook #141, the edition Parlor opens, divided into chapters exactly as Parlor shows them. Project Gutenberg’s licence and notes are left out. Other editions may differ slightly.

Reading speeds follow Marc Brysbaert’s review of 190 studies, which found that adults read English silently at about 260 words a minute for fiction and 238 for non-fiction (Journal of Memory and Language, 2019). Older and more difficult books often take longer than their word count suggests.

The reading level is the Flesch–Kincaid grade, worked out from average sentence length (20.5 words) and word length. It measures how long the sentences and words are, not how hard the ideas are.

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Pride and Prejudice 7 h 50 min
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