How long does it take to read The Scarlet Pimpernel?
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy takes about 5 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel
Next: I Will Repay
About 5 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1900. 303 pages, about 83,325 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 591 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, British, Fiction, Text-books for foreigners, Historical Fiction, Refugees
