It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Five Hard Pieces by Diana Lewis Burgin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Diana Lewis Burgin, noted scholar and internationally known translator of Russian prose and poetry, offers her original English verse translations of five long poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest twentieth-century Russian poets. Burgin's translations, the majority of which appear in print here for the first time, aim at total fidelity to the challenging meter, rhythm, and meaning as well as some of the rhyme of the Russian originals. Each translation is accompanied by a detailed, line-by-line explication of the Russian text as well as a meditation on the poem's...
Five Hard Pieces by Diana Lewis Burgin is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.
This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Five Hard Pieces aloud.
Five Hard Pieces is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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