How long does it take to read Lucile?
Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton
Lucile by Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1800. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 101 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lucile is a narrative poem whose heroine, Lucile, is beloved by two bitter rivals, the English Lord Alfred Hargrave and the French Duke of Luvois. She loves Alfred, but misunderstanding keeps them apart. Long years after, Alfred's son and the Duke's niece fall in love, are separated by the old feud but finally reunited through the efforts of Lucile, who has become a nursing nun, under the name of Soeur Seraphine.
Subjects: English poetry, Apologetics, Atheism, Poems, Novels in verse, Modern Poetry
