How long does it take to read The Reckless Orphan?
The Reckless Orphan by Vanessa Gray takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lovely young Julia Edgeworth lost everything except her beauty, her breeding, and her quick temper when her father gambled away the family estate and then passed away himself. Handsome, haughty, and fabulously wealthy Lord Charles Langley had everything a man could desire--except a wife to help continue his noble family line. Only an aristocrat as powerful and imperious as Lord Charles could see a young lady like Julia and instantly decide first to elevate her to his exalted social level and then to grant her the priceless privilege of becoming his wife. Only Julia would be so fiercely proud and foolishly headstrong as to say no....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
