How long does it take to read The Nonesuch?
The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as the nonesuch for his athletic prowess, and when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications. When they learned that Sir Waldo Hawkridge was coming, the village gentry were thrown into a flurry. The famed sportsman himself! Heir to an uncounted fortune, and a leader of London society! The local youths idolized "the Nonesuch"; the fathers disapproved; and the mothers and daughters saw him as the most eligible--and elusive--man in the kingdom. But one person remained calm. When she became a governess, twenty-eight years old Ancilla Trent had put away romance, and at first she could only be amused at the fuss over Sir Waldo, who ignored the well-born beauties of the district. But she found that instead of regarding him revulsion, she could very easily be beguiled into flirtation. Such a state of affairs would never do… To be Tiffany Wield's chaperone is a serious trial to Ancilla because her pupil's bad behavior. Ancilla strives to be a calming influence on her tempestuous charge, but then Tiffany runs off to London alone and Ancilla is faced with a devastating scandal. Sir Waldo Hawkridge, a confirmed bachelor who believes he is past the age of falling in love, comes instantly to the aid of the intrepid Ancilla to stop Tiffany's flight, and in the process discovers that it's never too late for the first bloom of love. And a shocking question began to form: could the celebrated gentleman be courting her?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, romance, Large print books, Fiction, romance, regency
