How long does it take to read Five Love-letters from a Nun to a Cavalier?
Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado
Five Love-letters from a Nun to a Cavalier by Gabriel de Guilleragues, Mariana Alcoforado takes about 1 hour 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 50 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1669. 100 pages, about 27,500 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 141 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Note on authorship: These “Lettres portugaises” were originally published as having been written by an unknown author in Portuguese and translated into French, also by an unknown translator. Eventually, they came to be ascribed to Sister Marianna Alcoforado, and countless editions were published throughout the centuries under her name. More recent scholarship, however, has considered more plausible that the letters were written by Gabriel de Guilleragues in French, and increasingly new editions are attributed to him. The authorship question is not settled, and new editions continue to be published attributing the letters to Sister Mariana as well.
Subjects: Fiction, Correspondence, Love-letters, Nuns, Portugal, Literary Criticism
