How long does it take to read The Last Kingdom?
a novel
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell takes about 8 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Saxon Stories
Next: The Pale Horseman
About 8 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 474 pages, about 130,350 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 866 AD, Osbert is the nine-year-old second son of the lord of Bebbanburg in Northumbria. When Danes land on the coast and his elder brother dies, the boy is renamed Uhtred. After a failed assault on the city of York, he is captured by the Danish jarl Ragnar the Fearless, who raises him as a son and trains him as a warrior. Meanwhile, his uncle seizes Bebbanburg from him. Growing up among the Danes, Uhtred takes on their ways, until events draw him toward the service of King Alfred of Wessex.
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Subjects: Fiction, History, Vikings, Historical Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, fiction
