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How long does it take to read Marie Antoinette?

Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 9 hours 58 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2001. 544 pages, about 149,600 words.

20 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 16 hours 37 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 58 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 14 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. But the story of her journey, begun as a fourteen-year-old sent from Vienna to marry the future Louis XVI, to her courageous defense before she was sent to the guillotine, reveals a woman of greater complexity and character than we have previously understood. We stand beside Marie Antoinette and witness the drama of her life as she becomes a scapegoat of the Ancien Regime, when her faults were minor in comparison to the punishments inflicted on her."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Queens, History, Biography, Reines, Biographies, Histoire

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