It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 1818, a prize-winning poet delivers a major new biography of Mary Shelley—as she has never been seen before. We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary...
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.
This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein aloud.
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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