It takes the average reader 8 hours and 44 minutes to read Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. The early novels drew on her own experiences a boat on the Thames in the 1960s; the BBC in war time; a failing bookshop in Suffolk; an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to possess entirely:...
Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee is 508 pages long, and a total of 131,064 words.
This makes it 171% the length of the average book. It also has 160% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 56 minutes to read Penelope Fitzgerald aloud.
Penelope Fitzgerald is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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