How long does it take to read Daphne?
Daphne by Sarah Carlisle takes about 4 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 220 pages, about 60,500 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Blurb: From the moment dashing Lord Edenbury--called Max by his friends--caught seventeen-year-old Daphne throwing mice into the music room window he was taken with her. The mice, he soon learned, were a ploy to cement the romance between her sister and her reluctant beau. You see, Daphne figured if Emily were to faint in the arms of her hesitant suitor, they would automatically become engaged. It was this very madcap scheme that endeared Daphne to Max's sophisticated heart. Incredible. A man of his age (all of twenty-eight) and experience falling for a chit of a girl like Daphne. Max might not have pursued her had it not been for the fortune-hunting Gerard. That's when Max decided to interfere...
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
