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How long does it take to read The Prince of India, or Why the Constantinople Fell?

Lew Wallace

The Prince of India, or Why the Constantinople Fell by Lew Wallace takes about 7 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 7 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1893. 388 pages, about 106,700 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 51 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 7 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

From the author of Ben-Hur, A tale of faith and the East. It was not his first visit to Mecca. But the purpose in mind and journey a new zest; and nothing in the least indicative of the prevalent spirit of the Hajj escaped him. Hundreds of years ago he smote Christ on his way to the Cross-and for that act he was blessed and pained to wait and meet his second coming, wandering through the centuries undying and drawn thin and weary. Fifty years ago, disgusted with the endless strife between Islam and Christianity, he went to Japan to be shut of it. There, in a repentant hour, he had conceived the idea of an Universal Religious Brotherhood, with God for its accordant principle; and he was now returned to present and urge the compromise...

Subjects: Fiction, History, Wandering Jew, Revenge, Sieges, Immortalism

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