How Long to Read Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

How Long Does it Take to Read Briefing for a Descent Into Hell?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 25 minutes to read Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.

How long is Briefing for a Descent Into Hell?

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing is 317 pages long, and a total of 81,469 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Briefing for a Descent Into Hell Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 25 minutes to read Briefing for a Descent Into Hell aloud.

What Reading Level is Briefing for a Descent Into Hell?

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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