How Long to Read Celestine

How Long Does it Take to Read Celestine?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Celestine by Gillian Tindall

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

Description

Late on a summer afternoon in the very heart of rural France, in a small, centuries-old house newly abandoned to its ghosts, Gillian Tindall came upon a cache of letters dating from the 1860s. Neatly folded and carefully tucked away, all were addressed to the village innkeeper's daughter, Celestine. All but one were proposals of marriage. Celestine Chaumette (1844-1933) was to reject each of these suitors to wed another; yet she preserved the letters, keeping them throughout her long life. Something about the letters, about the woman who had so clearly cherished them, fired the historian's curiosity and the novelist's imagination. With a house in Chassignolles, Celestine's village, Ms. Tindall would spend years searching in dusty archives and farmhouse attics, probing the memories and myths of the men and women from the village and the surrounding countryside. The treasure she unearthed reaches far beyond the mystery of Celestine to tell of a vanished way of life, of a century of revolutionary change--and of the strange persistence, despite all, of the past. The result is both moving and profound. It is, as M.R.D. Foot wrote in the London Spectator, "a touching picture of a world we have lost [and] social history at its best."

How long is Celestine?

Celestine by Gillian Tindall is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Celestine Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read Celestine aloud.

What Reading Level is Celestine?

Celestine 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.

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