How long does it take to read Lorna Doone?
R. D. Blackmore
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore takes about 9 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1656. 517 pages, about 142,175 words. Written for children.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 557 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, England, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Fict, History
