How long does it take to read The Shining Company?
The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff takes about 4 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 267 pages, about 73,425 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, History, Fiction, Historical fiction, Historical, Donna Harsh Collection
