It takes the average reader 1 hour and 11 minutes to read Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly by Don Nigro
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Drama Characters: 2 male, 1 female Unit Set Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong,...
Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly by Don Nigro is 69 pages long, and a total of 17,871 words.
This makes it 23% the length of the average book. It also has 22% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 37 minutes to read Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly aloud.
Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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