How Long to Read In the Shadow of the Angel

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Shadow of the Angel?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 3 minutes to read In the Shadow of the Angel by Kathryn S. Blair

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

Description

Called by many Mexico's "Gone with the Wind", the novel is a panorama of three momentous decades in Mexican history: 1900-1931. The story is based on the life of an extraordinary Mexican woman who defied tradition and class to bring change to her country and the price she paid for a dream destroyed. Antonieta Rivas Mercado was the daughter of the architect of Mexico's famous Independent Monument, popularly known as "The Angel". She intensely lived the last decade of a long dictatorship which ended in the lavish Centennial celebration of 1910, the chaos wrought by ten years of violent revolution and the struggle for power among the Generals who established the social and political order by which Mexico is governed today. Educated in Europe, brilliant and heiress of a fortune, Antonieta became the muse and patron of the young writers, artists and musicians of the twenties eager to join the modern world. The "scandalous" Antonieta consorted with the likes of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Federico Garcia Lorca as well as bullfighters, communists and Ambassadors. She dared seek a divorce: her ill-fated marriage to Albert Blair, an Anglo-American revolutionary, and her obsession with a homosexual painter became Antonieta's personal "vía crucis". In 1928 she entered the political arena and led the cause for women's right to vote in the campaign of Presidential candidate, José Vasconcelos. They shared a vision of an educated, just and democratic Mexico. Committed to their mutual goal, Antonieta devoted her heart and her money to his campaign. Caught in the vortex of the fraudulent election of 1929, her lover defeated, her money gone and violence flaring, she kidnapped her son and fled to Paris. An inspiration to so many, the internal woman churned with insecurities and conflicting emotions. At the age of thirty, Antonieta Rivas Mercado committed suicide in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

How long is In the Shadow of the Angel?

In the Shadow of the Angel by Kathryn S. Blair is 594 pages long, and a total of 150,876 words.

This makes it 200% the length of the average book. It also has 184% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Shadow of the Angel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 44 minutes to read In the Shadow of the Angel aloud.

What Reading Level is In the Shadow of the Angel?

In the Shadow of the Angel 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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