How long does it take to read By Love Beguiled?
By Love Beguiled by Sandra DuBay takes about 8 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1986. 479 pages, about 131,725 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
HE TAUGHT HER THE MEANING OF ECSTASY --BUT COULD SHE WIN HIS HEART? Widowed after seven years of celibate marriage to a man old enough to be her father, Lysette Ravaisson is still young, lovely, and free at last to seek the love she longs for. But the burden of her late husband's debts forces her to a fateful decision: she must abandon Saint-Cloud, her beloved plantation home and her loyal servants, or marry wealthy Nicholas Callaway, the man with whom she had once shared a brief moment of passion, but who now seems cynical and cold. Their marriage of convenience begins with deep misunderstandings on both sides. Yet within Lysette's vulnerable heart a hidden love smolders into a flame of passion strong enough to withstand jealousy, abduction, and tragic loss--everything except the indifference of the husband she has learned to adore....
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Romance, Historical Romance, Plantation life, Bodice Ripper