It takes the average reader 8 hours and 27 minutes to read Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The...
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras by Jean Moorcroft Wilson is 496 pages long, and a total of 126,976 words.
This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 33 minutes to read Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras aloud.
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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