How many pages is Mrs Dalloway?

About 232 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 64,056 words, about 4½ hrs of reading at an average pace.

How long is the Mrs Dalloway audiobook?

About 7 hrs, estimated from the 64,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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Mrs Dalloway

Name: Mrs Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

4½ hrsto read

5.9worth it

At your speed≈ 4½ hrs

Pages232

Audiobook≈ 7 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

The complete text runs to 64,056 words, counted word for word. At an average 250 words a minute that is 4½ hrs — a day's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.75 out of 5, from 508 ratings.

Worth-it score 5.9/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 5.7 (Hardcover's 3.75★ from 508 ratings) + length 0.2 = 5.9. How the score works →

How long does it take to read Mrs Dalloway?

The complete text of Mrs Dalloway runs to 64,056 words — about 232 pages in the edition we list. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Mrs Dalloway at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	6 hrs
Average	250	4½ hrs
Fast	400	2½ hrs

Counted word for word from the complete public-domain text on Project Gutenberg, so these times don't depend on any one edition's page count. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 7 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Mrs Dalloway?: About 4½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. The complete text of Mrs Dalloway runs to 64,056 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 6 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 2½ hrs.
How many pages is Mrs Dalloway?: About 232 pages, though editions of a book this old vary a great deal — which is why its reading time comes from the complete text instead: 64,056 words, about 4½ hrs of reading at an average pace.
Is Mrs Dalloway worth reading?: We score it 5.9 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.75 out of 5 from 508 ratings, which counts for 5.7; at about 4½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.2 for being short.
How long is the Mrs Dalloway audiobook?: About 7 hrs, estimated from the 64,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she prepares to host a party that evening. The narrative follows Clarissa’s thoughts (and sometimes those of people she meets) as she goes about her errands, and events in the day remind her of her youth and friendships from…

the past. As the book progresses characters from the past emerge, igniting old feelings and making Clarissa question the life she has created for herself. *Mrs. Dalloway* became the inspiration for Michael Cunningham’s 1998 novel *The Hours*.

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