How long does it take to read My Double Life?
Sarah Bernhardt
My Double Life by Sarah Bernhardt takes about 8 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1907. 455 pages, about 125,125 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life," both on- and offstage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.
Subjects: Biography, Actors, Actresses, Women
