How long does it take to read The Death of Kings?
The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden takes about 10 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Emperor
Previous: The Gates of Rome Next: The Field of Swords
About 10 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 556 pages, about 152,900 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The second volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar – an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction.The young Caesar must overcome enemies on land and at sea to become a battle-hardened leader – in the spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of The Gates of Rome. Forced to flee Rome, Julius Caesar is serving on board a war galley in the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean and rapidly gaining a fearsome reputation. But no sooner has he had a memorable victory than his ship is captured by pirates and he is held to ransom.Abandoned on the north African coast after hard months of captivity, he begins to gather a group of recruits that he will eventually forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors and to suppress a new uprising in Greece.Returning to Rome as a hero – and as an increasingly dangerous problem for his enemies – Caesar is reunited with his boyhood companion Brutus. But soon the friends are called upon to fight as they have never fought before, when a new crisis threatens to overwhelm the city – in the form of a rebellious gladiator named Spartacus...
Subjects: Generals, Military History, Fiction, Romans, History, Historical Fiction
