How long does it take to read Alex Haley's Queen?
Alex Haley, David Stevens, Jennifer Justin
Alex Haley's Queen by Alex Haley, David Stevens, Jennifer Justin takes about 13 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1983. 735 pages, about 202,125 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, tells about his great-great-grandfather who came to Alabama from Ireland, married a slave and then fathered a daughter—Haley’s grandmother, Queen. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley’s white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The two men become business partners and James Jackson makes his fortune. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. James’s son, Jass Jackson, inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen—the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley’s grandmother. This is history at its most compelling—from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South; from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas; from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom—all rendered with the eye for telling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley. A miniseries adaptation called Alex Haley’s Queen and starring Halle Berry, Danny Glover, Tim Daly, Ann-Margret and Ossie Davis aired on CBS on February 14, 1993.
Subjects: African Americans, Biography, Family, African americans, alabama, Haley family, Fiction
