How Long to Read Drinking from the Blood-Pit

How Long Does it Take to Read Drinking from the Blood-Pit?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 36 minutes to read Drinking from the Blood-Pit by Kostas Myrsiades

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

Description

Drinking from the Blood-Pit is a work of creative nonfiction, which uses Odysseuss descent to the underworld (Od.10.490-95) as a unifying theme for each of the fourteen pieces included. Each piece is based on a Homeric theme and/or episode that stresses the lessons culled from reading Homers Iliad and Odyssey on the authors journey from childhood to adulthood. The title of each story indicates the Homeric myth or episode used and is accompanied by a short epigraph from either the Iliad or Odyssey. The fourteen works are divided into three sections: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The first part, childhood (four stories), describes growing up on the island of Samos, Greece, during the Nazi occupation and the Greek Civil War that followed. The second section, adolescence (four stories), continues the authors odyssey to the United States, attempting to deal with a new language and becoming acclimated to a foreign culture. The third part, adulthood (six stories), returns the author to his native land as a student of Greek culture struggling to study the censored works of Greek poets under the military government of 19671974.

How long is Drinking from the Blood-Pit?

Drinking from the Blood-Pit by Kostas Myrsiades is 95 pages long, and a total of 24,225 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Drinking from the Blood-Pit Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 12 minutes to read Drinking from the Blood-Pit aloud.

What Reading Level is Drinking from the Blood-Pit?

Drinking from the Blood-Pit is suitable for students ages 10 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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