How Long to Read Pícaro

By Charles Bernard Nordhoff

How Long Does it Take to Read Pícaro?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 55 minutes to read Pícaro by Charles Bernard Nordhoff

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

Description

Pedestrian stuff. If a reader of the Bounty Trilogy decides to see what else Charles Nordhoff might have done, he or she should probably look for "No More Gas" because this book would be disappointing. The storyline follows the life of a Southern Californian man through a rejected offer of marriage, through a life in Paris during WW1, suffering an insufferable brother, through another rejected offer of marriage and finally getting the woman he thought he no longer wanted. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1 February 1887-10 April, 1947) was an American traveler and novelist who began life in London, England, born to American parents. Nordhoff's parents returned to the United States with him in 1889, living first in Pennsylvania, then Rhode Island, and finally settling in California by 1898. Nordhoff showed an early interest in writing. His first published work was an article in an ornithological journal, written in 1902 when he was just fifteen. At seventeen, he entered Stanford University, but transferred after one year to Harvard. After graduation in 1909, Nordhoff worked for his father's businesses, first spending two years in Mexico managing a sugar plantation, then four years as an executive of a tile and brick company in Redlands, California. He quit in 1916, signed up with the Ambulance Corps, and travelled to France. There he joined additional American expatriates as a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille. He finished World War I as a lieutenant in the US Army Air Service. After leaving the service, Nordhoff stayed on in Paris, France, where he worked as a journalist and wrote his first book, The Fledgling. In 1919, he and another former Lafayette Squadron pilot, James Norman Hall, who was additionally an author and journalist, were...

How long is Pícaro?

Pícaro by Charles Bernard Nordhoff is 406 pages long, and a total of 103,936 words.

This makes it 137% the length of the average book. It also has 127% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pícaro Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 27 minutes to read Pícaro aloud.

What Reading Level is Pícaro?

Pícaro is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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