It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in lush, erotic, and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years preceding World War II. In the tradition of great Irish...
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.
This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Langrishe, Go Down aloud.
Langrishe, Go Down is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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