How long does it take to read Sharpe's Rifles?
Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809
Bernard Cornwell, Frederick Davidson
Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell, Frederick Davidson takes about 6 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of Richard Sharpe
Previous: Sharpe's Trafalgar Next: Sharpe's Prey
About 6 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 351 pages, about 96,525 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 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As if being cut off from the army and surrounded by enemy cavalry is not bad enough, this officer who in the eyes of his society does not belong to his rank, Richard Sharpe has to deal with mutinous soldiers as well! It is only when he meets with a band of partisans that things become tolerable at best. Bolstered by his new allies and with his country having no faith in eventually winning against Napoleon in the peninsular war, 1807-1814, Sharpe and his elite riflemen with the partisans help plan an ambitious mission to give Spain hope and snatch victory from disaster, which is borderline crazy but could work.. If you believe in superstition.
Subjects: Richard Sharpe (Fictitious character), Military History, Great Britain in fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Soldiers
