It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set in a remote British penal colony in the late eighteenth century, Bring Larks and Heroes explores the early years of European settlement of desperate men and corrupt soldiers to Australia, the world’s end. Corporal Phelim Halloran, an honest man, poet and lover, attempts to make a home for himself while confronting the demands of his secret bride, a convict-artist, his Irish comrades, and his own conscience. Can he overcome the hellish, sun-parched landscape to believe in something greater than his own existence?
Bring Larks and Heroes by Thomas Keneally is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Bring Larks and Heroes aloud.
Bring Larks and Heroes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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