How long does it take to read Napoleon?
Napoleon by Frank McLynn takes about 13 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 38 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 744 pages, about 204,600 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and historians. In this compelling biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men -- as military leader, emperor, and lover. Tracing Napoleon's extraordinary career, the author examines the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and his military triumphs, to his coronation in 1804 and ultimate defeat and imprisonment. McLynn brilliantly reveals the extent to which Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of Fate; mathematician and mystic; intellectual giant and moral pygmy; great man and deeply flawed human being. In this work McLynn offers a vivid and valuable canvas of, and new dimension to, eighteenth-century European history. He also brings the reader, as never before, closer to understanding the much mythologized Napoleon. - Back cover.
Subjects: Emperors, Biography, History, France, biography
