How Long to Read How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hate campaign, his reputation never recovered and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate - and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic - Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.

How long is How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay?

How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay aloud.

What Reading Level is How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay?

How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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