How long does it take to read The Duke and the Preacher's Daughter?
The Duke and the Preacher's Daughter by Barbara Cartland takes about 2 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 59 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1979. 163 pages, about 44,825 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Benedicta gave a little cry and threw herself against the Duke of Kingswood. "I am so frightened I may... disappoint you." He pulled her closer to him. "Do you think I want you to know anything but what I shall teach you?" he asked. "I adore your ignorance, your purity." He spoke with a fervor she had never heard be-fore. "I was the first man who had ever kissed you. I shall also be the only man, and the last." Benedicta gazed at him in awe. "How could there be anyone else but you?" she asked wonderingly. Very tenderly the Duke looked down into her eyes. "You are mine," he said. He kissed her until he could feel her soft and pliant against him, until his lips had awakened in her the first flickering flames of desire....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical
