It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read A Very Old Man by Italo Svevo
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, including five chapters of his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine writer Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, when the international success of Zeno's Conscience in 1923 had put an end to decades of literary neglect and set his imagination free. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start--aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and...
A Very Old Man by Italo Svevo is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read A Very Old Man aloud.
A Very Old Man is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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