It takes the average reader 1 hour and 21 minutes to read In Secret by David Harsent
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Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy, and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos's short lyric poems: brief, compressed narratives that are spare, though not scant. They possess an emotional resonance that is instinctively subversive. The poems are so pared-down, so distilled, that the story-fragments we are given - the scene- settings, the tiny...
In Secret by David Harsent is 79 pages long, and a total of 20,461 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 25% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 51 minutes to read In Secret aloud.
In Secret is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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