How long does it take to read Shanna?
Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss takes about 12 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1977. 666 pages, about 183,150 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sensuous free spirit Shanna Trahern takes flight to a lush Caribbean paradise -- leaving the dashing condemned Ruark Beauchamp to the gallows of Newgate Prison. But no hangman's noose will deny Ruark the ecstasy of his true love. An exquisite beauty in desperate need . . . A condemned man with nothing left to lose . . . A magnificent tale of freedom and passionate destiny from the incomparable storyteller-- Kathleen E. Woodiwiss SHANNA Behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison, a pact is sealed in secret--as a dashing and doomed criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress . . . in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure. In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken--as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna's. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion . . . and no hangman's noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his.
Subjects: Love stories, Passion, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Eighteenth century, Fiction
