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How long does it take to read The Little Pretender?

Barbara Cartland

The Little Pretender by Barbara Cartland takes about 4 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 58 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1950. 271 pages, about 74,525 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 17 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 58 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 6 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

THE DIVIDED HEART 1750, Scottish Highlands. Four years after Bonnie Prince Charles had lost the battle of Culloden Moor, he and his friends are planning another Rising. The Duke of Arkrae, Chief of the Clan MacCraggan, is of great importance, owing to the strategic position of his territories. But where his sympathies lie is known neither to the Jacobites nor to the English. Iona a lovely 17-year-old red-haired ward of a Jacobite exile in Paris, agrees to impersonate the Duke's half-sister, who was drowned as a child. Her mission: to learn whether the duke, head of the most powerful clan in Scotland, was loyal to the prince--or a traitor. In order to discover the truth, she arrived to Skaig Castle. It was a scheme that called for wit and courage, and Iona complicated her task by falling hopelessly in love with the handsome duke at first sight! If he were a traitor, she must denounce him; and if he were not, she must disappear from his life as suddenly as she had entered it. For surely the Duke of Arkrae would not return the love of a nobody -- a pretender?

Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Impersonation, fiction, History, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, romance, general

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