It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon by Alvin A. Lee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other...
Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon by Alvin A. Lee is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.
This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon aloud.
Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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