How long does it take to read The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel?
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy takes about 4 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 4 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1919. 239 pages, about 65,725 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 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 210 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.
Subjects: Fiction, History, British, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, France, fiction
