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How long does it take to read Power of the Sword?

Wilbur Smith

Power of the Sword by Wilbur Smith takes about 16 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of The Courtney Novels series

Previous: The Burning Shore Next: Rage

About 16 hours 8 minutes

A long haul

First published 1987. 880 pages, about 242,000 words.

33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 26 hours 53 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 16 hours 8 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 10 hours 5 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, South africa, fiction

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