How long does it take to read The Diabolical Baron?
The Diabolical Baron by Mary Jo Putney takes about 4 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Davenport
Next: The Rake
About 4 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 268 pages, about 73,700 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jason Kincaid, nineteenth Baron Radford, was devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy, and thoroughly ruthless. What he wanted, he got, and now what he wanted was to win a wager that he could make Miss Caroline Hanscombe his bride, after her name was drawn out of a hat. True, Caroline was an innocent compared to the baron. True, the ruling passion of her life was music, to which the baron turned a deaf ear. True, she found a perfect soul mate in the gallant Captain Richard Davenport, home from the wars and laying siege to her heart. But how could this chit of a girl defy the desires of this lord who so easily defeated her every defence as the day of her dreaded marriage came ever closer -- and her hopes of escape evaporated one by one...
Subjects: Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Man-woman relationships, Fiction
