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How long does it take to read Legacy?

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Danielle Steel

Legacy by Danielle Steel takes about 7 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 5 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2010. 386 pages, about 106,150 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 48 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 5 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 25 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a noblewoman alongside a distant relative? Brigitte's quest to learn the story of the Marquise de Margerac (ne e Wachiwi) takes her from Salt Lake City to Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually to Paris, where she meets Marc Henri, a fetching Sorbonne literature professor.

Subjects: Fiction, Indians of North America, Indians of North America in fiction, History, Family secrets, Genealogy

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