How long does it take to read The Memoirs of Cleopatra?
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George takes about 17 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 54 minutes
A long haul
First published 1997. 976 pages, about 268,400 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words - by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Told in the first person - from the young queen's earliest memories of her father's tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world - this is an enthralling saga of ambition and power. It is also a tale of passion that begins when the twenty-one-year-old Cleopatra, desperate to return from exile, seeks out the one man who can help her: Julius Caesar. And it does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death...
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, historical, general
