It takes the average reader 11 hours and 55 minutes to read A King's Ransom: Plantagenets Book 5 by Sharon Penman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Travelling home from the crusades, Richard was shipwrecked off the coast of Austria, after an encounter with pirates. Richard should have been under the Church's protection, but in Outremer he had given the Duke of Austria good reason to loathe him and he was captured. He was immediately claimed by the Holy Roman Emperor, who also bore a grudge against the captive English king. Richard was to spend fifteen months imprisoned. For a man of his fiery nature, it was truly shameful. His mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, began to move heaven and earth to raise a staggering ransom, travelling to Germany herself to buy the release of her favourite son. But it was not to be that easy. At the eleventh hour, Heinrich announced that he had had a better offer from the French king, Philippe, and Richard's own treacherous brother, John, offering Heinrich an even larger sum to continue Richard's captivity - or to turn him over to their tender mercies.
A King's Ransom: Plantagenets Book 5 by Sharon Penman is 704 pages long, and a total of 178,816 words.
This makes it 238% the length of the average book. It also has 219% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 17 minutes to read A King's Ransom: Plantagenets Book 5 aloud.
A King's Ransom: Plantagenets Book 5 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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