How Long to Read OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES

How Long Does it Take to Read OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 33 minutes to read OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES by Arthur Ransome

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

Description

This is a book of Russian folklore retold for young people and the young at heart. The tales are a good sampling of Slavic marchen. The stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tell their children and each other. This is a book written far away in Russia, for English children who play in deep lanes with wild roses above them in the high hedges, or by the small singing becks that dance down the gray fells at home. Russian fairyland is quite different. Under the windows of the author's house, the wavelets of the Volkhov River are beating quietly in the dusk. A gold light burns on a timber raft floating down the river. Beyond the river in the blue midsummer twilight is the broad Russian steppe and the distant forests of Novgorod. Somewhere in that forest of great trees--a forest so big that the forests of England are little woods beside it--is the hut where old Peter sits at night and tells these stories to his grandchildren. In Russia hardly anybody is too old for fairy stories, and the author even overheard soldiers on their way to the WWI talking of very wise and very beautiful princesses as they drank their tea by the side of the road. He believed there must be more fairy stories told in Russia than anywhere else in the world. In this book are a few of those he liked best. The author spent time in Russia during World War I as a journalist for the radical British newspaper, the Daily News, meeting among others, Lenin and Trotsky and was also known in the London bohemian artistic scene. 33% of the net from the sale of this book will be donated to charities for educational purposes. YESTERDAY'S BOOKS for TOMORROW'S EDUCATIONS

How long is OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES?

OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES by Arthur Ransome is 326 pages long, and a total of 83,456 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 36 minutes to read OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES aloud.

What Reading Level is OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES?

OLD PETER'S RUSSIAN TALES 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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