How long does it take to read Ten Years Later?
Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet takes about 9 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1848. 514 pages, about 141,350 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 356 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon entering Paris, became almost immediately embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Romans, Histoire, Historical Fiction, Fiction, historical, general
