How Long to Read Lies and Sorcery

How Long Does it Take to Read Lies and Sorcery?

It takes the average reader 13 hours and 20 minutes to read Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante

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

Description

An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women and their unhappy marriages, now in the first-gever unabridged English translation. Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she admired most—and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Morante's celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery, written during the war, when Morante, half-Jewish, was living in hiding, and published in 1948, is a sprawling 700-page novel in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust,...

How long is Lies and Sorcery?

Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante is 800 pages long, and a total of 200,000 words.

This makes it 270% the length of the average book. It also has 244% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lies and Sorcery Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 12 minutes to read Lies and Sorcery aloud.

What Reading Level is Lies and Sorcery?

Lies and Sorcery 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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