How long does it take to read The Emerald Necklace?
The Emerald Necklace by Diana Brown takes about 5 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 293 pages, about 80,575 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When lovely Lady Leonora Fordyce weds Etienne Lambert, who is of lowly birth despite his patrician demeanor, she saves her profligate father, the Earl of Castleford, from debtors' prison. But Leonora is spoiled and cannot imagine loving her new husband because he is a bastard, rumored to be a servant's child, an impoverished orphan who left England and returned from the Colonies a rich, "enlightened" tycoon. Can she change and bestow the affection on her husband he so richly deserves?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Marriage, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
