How long does it take to read The Autobiography of Henry VIII?
with notes by his fool, Will Somers
The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George takes about 17 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 18 minutes
A long haul
First published 1986. 944 pages, about 259,600 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five handwritten drafts. Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.
Subjects: historical fiction, Kings and rulers, Fools and jesters, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general
