It takes the average reader and 40 minutes to read Kitchener by Harold Begbie
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This 1915 biography, published just a year before the dramatic death of its subject, looks behind the legend of Kitchener the machine to find a man possessed not of genius but rather tenacity and exceptional skills of organization and administration. Begbie takes time to look at the making of Kitchener, the facts of his career, the legend he had become, and "The Man Himself."Excerpt from Kitchener.There came young Herbert in 1870 on a holiday visit, bringing his textbooks along with him. Of a sudden the straight road of his set purpose was dazzled by a great light---the light of adventure, the blaze of war. Prussia and France came to grips. The set purpose dwindled, paled, went out like a match. Our Woolwich cadet found himself looking into a light that was like the glare of a furnace. The marshalling of the legions of France beat a new music in his heart. The thunder of cannon broke in upon the conned axioms of his textbooks like the banging of an iron fist on the door of a sleeper. Troops went by, trundling their guns, singing the "Marseillaise," their standards fluttering in a glitter of bayonets....Kitchener went off and offered his services to the French. There he stood before them, a solid twenty years of hale manhood, well over six feet, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, straight-legged, and hard as steel, the face of him brown as
Kitchener by Harold Begbie is 40 pages long, and a total of 10,000 words.
This makes it 13% the length of the average book. It also has 12% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 54 minutes to read Kitchener aloud.
Kitchener is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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