How long does it take to read Byzantium?
Byzantium by Stephen R. Lawhead takes about 12 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 688 pages, about 189,200 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish Monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom. Thus begins an expedition by sea and over land, as Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an inmate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. And finally this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny. *A magnificent epic of sweep, grandeur, and heroism, Byzantium is certain to secure Stephen R. Lawhead's place as one of the leading historical novelists of our time.*
Subjects: Book of Kells, Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, historical, general, Bishops, Christian saints
