How long does it take to read The Dissolute Duke?
The Dissolute Duke by Miranda Cameron takes about 4 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 236 pages, about 64,900 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
THE MAN SHE HATED TO LOVE Miss Celeste Robinson quickly came to the conviction that the Duke of Malvern was thoroughly, completely, absolutely despicable. Not only was this outrageously handsome, shockingly high-living gentleman notorious for his drinking, gambling, and womanizing in London, but his conduct was equally reprehensible when he returned to his estate on the channel coast of England. There, he blighted his shy sister Meg's chances for happiness by arrogantly forbidding her to see the neighboring lord she longed for, and dashed his brother Virgil's dreams of love by using his wealth and title to claim the incomparably lovely and insatiably ambitious Lady Lucretia Coulter as his own bride-to-be. But if the duke made it so effortlessly easy for Celeste to make up her mind to despise him, he also made it devilishly difficult to convince her heart....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, general
