How long does it take to read Rhett Butler's People?
Donald McCaig
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig takes about 8 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 467 pages, about 128,425 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rhett Butler's People is the long-awaited novel based on the great American novel Gone With the Wind. Twelve years in the making, Rhett Butler's People works a major and historic cultural even for millions of Gone With the Wind readers, complementing and adding new dimensions to its timeless story. Though the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the enigmatic Rhett Butler unfold. Meet Rhett as a boy, a free spirit who loved the marshes and tidewaters of the Low Country, and learn of the ruthlessness of his father, whose desire for control resulted in unspeakable tragedy. Through Rhett's eyes, you will also meet the people who shaped him in other ways; the Overseer's daughter, Belle Watling; Rhett's brave and determined sister, Rosemary. Tunis Bonneau, the son of freed slaves - Rhett's childhood friend who understood him like no one else. Jack Ravunel, whose name became inextricably linked to heartbreak. And then, of course, there is Scarlett, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is entwined with Rhett's more like him than she cares to admit, more in love with him than she'll ever know. Rhett Butler's People, brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, fulfills the dream of those whose imagination have been indelibly marked by Gone With the Wind.
Subjects: History, Fiction, South Carolina -- Fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction / General, Fiction - General
