It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read Autobiography and Imagination by John Pilling
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft, coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the formalism of language. In each case the writer stamps his personality on the work by mean of a distinctive verbal surface whose discipline enables him to evade narrow egotism and forces both reader and writer...
Autobiography and Imagination by John Pilling is 178 pages long, and a total of 45,924 words.
This makes it 60% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read Autobiography and Imagination aloud.
Autobiography and Imagination is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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