It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Volume 7 of The Complete Works of George Orwell Coming Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads and the domination of the motor car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised when, in the nostalgia of childhood, it was 'summer. . . always summer'. It looks forward to the destruction wrought by air-raids (though written in 1938-1939, war is expected in 1941) leading to 'The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world. . the rubber truncheons. . the posters with enormous faces' that will be Nineteen...
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Coming Up for Air aloud.
Coming Up for Air is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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