How long does it take to read Sword at Sunset?
Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Eagle of the Ninth
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About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1963. 480 pages, about 132,000 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 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Knights and knighthood, Kings and rulers, Adaptations, Fiction, Arthurian romances, Britons