How Long to Read A Game of Hide and Seek

How Long Does it Take to Read A Game of Hide and Seek?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Haunted by unspoken tensions and stifled ardor, two lovers navigate shifting expectations and societal changes in inter-war England—a decade-spanning love story from an author who is “the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike” (The Independent) The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Kingsley Amis. She also regularly published stories in The New Yorker for close to two decades. For all that, her work, as steely as it is delicate, remains the secret of a small number of intensely devoted readers. The publication of her finest novel, A Game of Hide and Seek, long unavailable in the United States, should help to change that. This is an unabashed love story, capturing all the uncertainty and inevitability and deceptiveness of true love, tracking the shifting currents of emotional life, and never yielding to melodrama. Set in Britain between the wars—a time of transition between old convention and new ways—the book’s heroine is Harriet, the only child of a suffragette, whom we meet as a shy and domestic and not especially smart or pretty girl. At eighteen she falls in love with Vesey, but after Vesey must go away, she marries another man, Charles, and bears a child. Then Vesey returns. Love is at the center of the book, but so too is Taylor’s extraordinary knack for depicting characters. The minor figures in the book—from Harriet’s mother’s friend Caroline, with her progressive politics, to Charles, his coworkers, and his mother, to Betsy with her schoolgirl crush on her Greek teacher—are as memorable as the passion and heartache of Harriet and Vesey.

How long is A Game of Hide and Seek?

A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor is 329 pages long, and a total of 85,211 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Game of Hide and Seek Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 45 minutes to read A Game of Hide and Seek aloud.

What Reading Level is A Game of Hide and Seek?

A Game of Hide and Seek is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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