How long does it take to read Empty Mansions?
The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Bill Dedman
Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman takes about 8 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 456 pages, about 125,400 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 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The rich mystery of a reclusive, eccentric heiress Huguette Clark: a true story of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance.
Subjects: Family, Mansions, Recluses, Homes and haunts, Heiresses, Biography
