How long does it take to read Hungarian Rhapsody?
Hungarian Rhapsody by Jessica Steele takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Portrait of a woman in love Ella's autocratic father had insisted she have her portrait painted; it was a family tradition. And, over Ella's protests, he'd even commissioned an artist to do it--Zoltan Fazekas, renowned Hungarian painter of landscapes and portraits. Ella finally, reluctantly, agreed, although it meant she had to go to him in Budapest. But when she arrived, she soon discovered that he wasn't the kind of man she'd expected at all! Zoltan was brilliant, handsome, compelling--so it was hardly surprising that Ella started to fall in love with him. Unfortunately, Zoltan didn't return her feelings. It seemed that all he wanted to see was her surface beauty, not the passionate, loving woman beneath....
Subjects: Portrait painters, Fiction, Hungarians, Fiction, general