It takes the average reader 2 hours and 4 minutes to read Saint Margaret of Cortona by François Mauriac
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Nobel Prize–winning author’s stirring biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who become the patron saint of the homeless. Born in 1247 to a farming family in a small village outside Perugia, Margaret of Cortona was willful and reckless in her youth. At age seventeen, she became a wealthy man’s mistress—even bearing his son out of wedlock. But her life of sin ended when she found her lover murdered. Devoting herself to prayer and penance, Margaret eventually joined the Third Order of St. Francis and took a vow of poverty. She established a hospital for the poor and homeless...
Saint Margaret of Cortona by François Mauriac is 123 pages long, and a total of 31,119 words.
This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 50 minutes to read Saint Margaret of Cortona aloud.
Saint Margaret of Cortona is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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