How long does it take to read Cleopatra?
A Life
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 441 pages, about 121,275 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover: Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons; her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
Subjects: Kings and rulers, Queens, Biography, History, Egypt, kings and rulers, Egypt, biography
