How long does it take to read The Dutiful Duke?
The Dutiful Duke by Joan Overfield takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 224 pages, about 61,600 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A LADY INCENSED Miss Thomasina "Nia" Pringle has resolved to champion the cause of an innocent child illegitimately sired and then abandoned by an unscrupulous aristocrat. And so the beautiful, high-spirited schoolteacher confronts the blackguard's brother and insists that he acknowledge the unfortunate waif. A GALLANT GENTLEMAN Wyatt Perryvale is aghast when a strange woman steals into his coach, points a gun at him...and demands that he accept responsibility for a fatherless urchin! The child's resemblance to Wyatt's late, lamented brother is uncanny, however. So the sad, fair-minded lord agrees to take her in and hires the audacious Miss Pringle to act as her governess--never dreaming that Nia has much to teach him as well...about joy, and living, and love.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
