How Long to Read In Search of a Past

How Long Does it Take to Read In Search of a Past?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read In Search of a Past by Ronald Fraser

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

Description

Ronald Fraser, the internationally renowned oral historian, turns his attention to his own origins in this remarkable memoir. In Search of a Past gathers the recollections of the servants who worked at the manor house outside London where Fraser grew up. It was the place where his parents-one American, the other Scottish-learned to embrace the lifestyle of the idle local gentry. Fraser paints a vivid picture of a vanished interwar world. Sensitively recorded, the words of his family's former employees capture the texture of English "county" life as seen from below, woven into a background of their personal lives, their work and the social antagonisms they experienced. Beneath their stories, however, the author glimpses another unspoken narrative-that of his own childhood. He submits to a course of psychoanalysis and delves into a past riven by confusing emotions and conflicting class allegiances. The result is an innovative, honest, and beautifully written account of the search for lost time, one that defies literary categorization.

How long is In Search of a Past?

In Search of a Past by Ronald Fraser is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In Search of a Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read In Search of a Past aloud.

What Reading Level is In Search of a Past?

In Search of a Past 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.

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