How Long to Read Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning

How Long Does it Take to Read Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning by Victoria Shorr

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

Description

Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Midnight is a study in the courage of three women—Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she scoffs at the cost—life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe, reading and writing, but Midnight finds her alone, eight years later, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat. Joan of Arc, imprisoned in chains, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave, daughter of God, her saints had whispered, you will be saved—and she believes it, until she is taken to be burned at the stake. Midnight is the story of Joan’s final days, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.

How long is Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning?

Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning by Victoria Shorr is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning aloud.

What Reading Level is Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning?

Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning 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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