How long does it take to read Empire?
a novel
Empire by Gore Vidal takes about 9 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Narratives of Empire
Previous: Lincoln Next: Hollywood
About 9 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 502 pages, about 138,050 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 36 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Caroline Sanford, a newspaper owner from Washington, D.C., struggles to gain power and respect in a male dominated industry, in this prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States as it begins to emerge as a world power at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Newspaper publishing, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Fiction, historical, Presidents, fiction
