It takes the average reader 7 hours and 15 minutes to read Esmond and Ilia by Marina Warner
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical. Marina Warner’s father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War. As Allied forces fought their way north through Italy, Esmond found himself in the southern town of Bari, where Ilia had grown up, one of four girls of a widowed mother. The Englishman approaching middle age and the twenty-one-year-old Italian were soon married. Before the war had come to...
Esmond and Ilia by Marina Warner is 432 pages long, and a total of 108,864 words.
This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 54 minutes to read Esmond and Ilia aloud.
Esmond and Ilia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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