How long does it take to read Daughter of Fortune?
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 75 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel
Subjects: Gold mines and mining, Fiction, History, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Gold mines and mining in fiction
