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How long does it take to read The Tower of the Captive?

Violet Winspear

The Tower of the Captive by Violet Winspear takes about 3 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 29 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1966. 190 pages, about 52,250 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 48 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 29 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 11 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Don Rafael de Domerique had a typical Spanish attitude towards the amount of freedom he thought women should have, while Vanessa's outlook was thoroughly Anglo-Saxon. This was all right--until Vanessa fell in love with Rafael.

Subjects: romance

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