How long does it take to read A Rare Benedictine?
The Advent of Brother Cadfael
A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters takes about 2 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 16 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Confession of Brother Haluin Next: The Heretic's Apprentice
About 2 hours 45 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 150 pages, about 41,250 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
These three short stories form a prequel to the Ellis Peters series featuring Brother Cadfael, a medieval monk detective. The first story describes the circumstances around Brother Cadfael’s decision to renounce his former life and become a monk. The second and third stories give Brother Cadfael the opportunity to solve mysteries that occur at Shrewsbury Abbey in the years just preceding the first full-length Brother Cadfael novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Monks, History, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), Herbalists, Pictorial works
