It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read A Short History of Ireland's Writers by Prof. A. Norman Jeffares
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An introduction to all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, placing them in context and providing a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work. The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O'Casey to Beckett and Friel; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Flann O'Brien to contemporaries Julia O'Faolain, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright.
A Short History of Ireland's Writers by Prof. A. Norman Jeffares is 189 pages long, and a total of 48,951 words.
This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 27 minutes to read A Short History of Ireland's Writers aloud.
A Short History of Ireland's Writers is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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