How long does it take to read Marlborough?
His Life and Times
Marlborough by Winston S. Churchill takes about 18 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 1 minute
A long haul
First published 1933. 983 pages, about 270,325 words.
37 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 30 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 77 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Marlborough: His Life and Times is an exhaustive, four-volume panegyric biography, in which Churchill defends his ancestor against claims of war-mongering and charlatanism made by Thomas Macaulay, a 19th-century historian and Whig politician. The Duke of Marlborough was a military commander and statesman, who rose from a page at the Stuart court to one of the richest and most successful royal subjects. Churchill deftly explains the political, military, and social issues wrestled with by Marlborough in the course his career, including the Glorious Revolution and War of Spanish Succession, but also takes pains to explore the private and personal aspects of Marlborough's life. The result is a literary and historical triumph."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Subjects: Biography, Court and courtiers, Generals, History, History, Military, Military History
