How long does it take to read Queenie?
Michael Korda
Queenie by Michael Korda takes about 13 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1985. 727 pages, about 199,925 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Born of Anglo-Indian and Irish descent, young Queenie Kelly strives to better her circumstances in a journey that takes her from her home country to England, Paris, New York, Hollywood, and Mexico. Her rise from obscurity leads her to nightclubs and then on to movie stardom as Dawn Avalon. Along the way she experiences great joy and devastating loss and pain, poverty, fear and riches, and above all notoriety. But of the men who use her and whom she uses, only one, a mysterious and handsome prince, owns her heart. Author Michael Korda was the nephew of Alexander Korda, the first husband of Merle Oberon, of whom this novel is said yo be a roman a clef.
Subjects: Motion picture industry, Fiction, World War II, gangsters, English fiction, Fiction, general
