It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Home is the Hunter: A Comedy in Two Acts by Helen Macinnes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
After years of war and still more years of travelling, Ulysses finally returns to his beloved Ithaca, penniless and alone. Rather than the joyous welcome he had hoped for, he finds his palace full of quarrelling suitors, all scheming to possess his wife and his land. Meanwhile the beautiful Penelope is speculating on why it should take any man seven years to get home. As the couple find their way back to each other, Homer becomes increasingly irritated that they are not adhering to the plot of his new book, and Athena, the Goddess of Reason, has had enough of irrational mortal behaviour. Finally, what really happened on that historic day in 1177 BC can be revealed…
Home is the Hunter: A Comedy in Two Acts by Helen Macinnes is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Home is the Hunter: A Comedy in Two Acts aloud.
Home is the Hunter: A Comedy in Two Acts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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