How long does it take to read Sharpe's Revenge?
Richard Sharpe and the peace of 1814
Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 19 of Richard Sharpe
Previous: Sharpe's Siege Next: Sharpe's Waterloo
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bold, professional, ruthless, hero and man of action'Sharpe lost all sense of time. The fear was gone, as it always seemed to vanish once danger was present. Nairne's men, thinned out and bloodied, pushed forward into gun fire. Smoke thickened. Knots of men lay in blood where canister had struck. The wounded called for help, or vomited, or cried, or just lay softly to let death come.'1814. There are rumours that Napoleon is dead, or has run away, but Sharpe has one last, battle to fight before he can lay down his sword - it is the battle for Toulouse. Little does he know it will be one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war.The battle is not the end of Sharpe's challenges - he is stabbed in the back by a whispering campaign branding him a thief and a liar. Sharpe must discover who has framed him, and conduct a revenge as ingenious as it is devastating.A Sharpe Adventure
Subjects: Richard Sharpe (Fictitious character), Military History, Great Britain in fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
