It takes the average reader 9 hours and 46 minutes to read For Love Alone by Christina Stead
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
'In the harbour city's steamy, fecund heat, the air is thick with thwarted longing, the people on the tram smell like foxes, and the girls with their glossy hair talk of hope chests and fight down the dread of being left on the shelf.' from the Introduction by Drusilla Modjeska Superbly evoking life in Sydney and London in the 1930s, For Love Alone is the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa Hawkins, who believes in passionate love and yearns to experience it. She focuses her energy on Jonathan Crow, an unlikeable and arrogant man whom she follows to London after four long years of...
For Love Alone by Christina Stead is 575 pages long, and a total of 146,625 words.
This makes it 194% the length of the average book. It also has 179% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 21 minutes to read For Love Alone aloud.
For Love Alone is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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