It takes the average reader 3 hours and 14 minutes to read A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories by Glenway Wescott
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried from 1938 until this century in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes a date with a young artist in Maine. Lavishly rendered in Wescott's elegant prose, the tale is explicit where it needs to be, but—as is typical of Wescott—it is filled with descriptive...
A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories by Glenway Wescott is 188 pages long, and a total of 48,504 words.
This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 25 minutes to read A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories aloud.
A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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