How Long to Read Mary, Mary

How Long Does it Take to Read Mary, Mary?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 30 minutes to read Mary, Mary by James Stephens

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

Description

Sixteen-year-old Mary Makebelieve shares a small room with her mother, a charwoman, in the tenements of early twentieth-century Dublin. While Mrs. Makebelieve is at work cleaning the houses of the wealthy, Mary wanders around the city and its parks absorbed in daydreams. Her encounter with a policeman who appears to signal romantic interest in her is the beginning of Mary’s coming-of-age story, which combines elements of folk- or fairytale with a complex vision of human psychology and the relations between various social groups: mothers and daughters, men and women, the rich and the poor, the young and the old. Written in 1910 and first published the following year as a serial in the short-lived Irish Review (a periodical co-founded by Stephens himself), Mary, Mary was his first published work of prose fiction. According to critic Augustine Martin, it’s the first novel written about Dublin’s slums, the squalor and despair of which Stephens had experienced first-hand in his youth. Martin suggests in his critical study of Stephens that it’s this novel, of all Stephens’ works, that most clearly articulates the driving idea of his literary career: the gap between the hard reality that human beings must endure, and the aspirations of reverie whose realization we seek through imagination. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

How long is Mary, Mary?

Mary, Mary by James Stephens is 150 pages long, and a total of 37,500 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mary, Mary Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read Mary, Mary aloud.

What Reading Level is Mary, Mary?

Mary, Mary is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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