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How long does it take to read Love in Pity?

The Gods Forget

Barbara Cartland

Love in Pity by Barbara Cartland takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 57 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1939. 215 pages, about 59,125 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 34 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 57 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 28 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Beautiful innocent Jacinda was defiant when Helen, her ravishing and impulsive mother, took her sister Fleur and fled the Castle. Since then, Jacinda had dedicated herself to her wilful and exhorbitant father, Lord Buckingham Coombe. But his scandalous behavior had driven her childhood love from her. And finally, one drunken night, he had sold the Castle, the last remnant of the family's opulence, to a stranger from London. All that was finest in her life had been torn from her. Jacinda vowed to avenge herself. She would marry Morgan Wright, the dashing rich stranger her father had sworn to eternal enmity. But Jacinda's troubled heart soon wavered from hatred. Little did she realize the overwhelming power of determination and love....

Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Marriage of Convenience, Romance Fiction

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