How long does it take to read Sharpe's Eagle?
Richard Sharpe and the Talavera campaign July 1809
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Richard Sharpe
Previous: Sharpe's Havoc Next: Sharpe's Gold
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of action"Sharpe asked three things of his men. That they fought as he did with a ruthless professionalism.That they stole only from the enemy and the dead unless they were starving. And they never got drunk without his permission."Richard Sharpe is having a difficult war. Excluded from promotion because he is always on the battlefield, up against pompous, incompetent colonels, and worst, suddenly finding himself at the head of an inexperienced company who use all twenty five drill book approved movements to load and fire their muskets.A soldier like Sharpe can't be kept down though and his promotion to Captain, when it comes, makes a dangerous enemy in the upper ranks. As Sharpe approaches bloody battle in Talavera, he knows he is fighting for his own honour and that of his men.
Subjects: Fiction, Richard Sharpe (Fictitious character), Great Britain in fiction, Military History, Historical Fiction, Soldiers
