It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europe’s oldest and most venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St. Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian chant; and at the deeply ascetic Trappist...
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read A Time to Keep Silence aloud.
A Time to Keep Silence is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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