It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Elizabeth Bowen by Victoria Glendinning
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this richly detailed biography Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist ("The Death of the Heart," "The Heat of the Day") whose literary achievements were matched by her tremendous talent for living. Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland to Oxford (where she met Yeats and Eliot), through her service as an air-raid warden in London during World War II, to her friendships with such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, Glendinning lifts the veil between Bowen's imaginative world and the complex emotional life that fired her...
Elizabeth Bowen by Victoria Glendinning is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Elizabeth Bowen aloud.
Elizabeth Bowen is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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