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How long does it take to read Beauty and the Beast?

Taylor Ryan

Beauty and the Beast by Taylor Ryan takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 26 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1996. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 3 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 26 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Life Was a Banquet A treasure to be enjoyed with gusto, and the impossible Lord Perfect seemed bent on starving himself. Though he had suffered greatly, Margaret Penwell knew there was still much to be savored, and she was determined to restore his appetite for living. Claymore Perfect was mired in brooding isolation, until a bundle of sass and optimism, otherwise known as Marke Penwell, arrived to disrupt his quiet seclusion. Crowned with a riot of rusty-hued curls and fresh as an autumn breeze, the disarming nuisance had somehow given him new reason to live.

Subjects: Fiction, Historical Romance, Holiday, Christmas, depression, Harlequin Historical

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