How Long to Read Samuel Beckett

How Long Does it Take to Read Samuel Beckett?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 57 minutes to read Samuel Beckett by Isaac Cronin

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

Description

Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a writer. Cronin explores how the sporty schoolboy of solid Protestant bourgeois stock became a prizewinning student at Trinity, flirted with scholarship, and, in Paris, found himself at the center of its literary avant-garde as an intimate friend of James Joyce. But he was a young man who struggled with complexities in his own nature as well as with problems of literary expression. In the small provincial city of Kassel, Germany, the cosmopolitan Beckett experienced a faltering entanglement with his cousin—one of the first in a series of problematic encounters with women. The war years, which he spent as a member of the Resistance and a refugee in the South of France, brought Beckett the self-probings and discoveries that led to the great works. Then, with his sudden and astonishing fame, the balloons of myth began to inflate and a stereotype was born—frozen in exile and enigma, solemnity and sanctity. Anthony Cronin bursts these balloons to see more clearly what lies behind. Without moralizing or psychologizing, without pretensions or piety, he uncovers the real Beckett, the way the life was lived, the way the art was made.

How long is Samuel Beckett?

Samuel Beckett by Isaac Cronin is 645 pages long, and a total of 164,475 words.

This makes it 218% the length of the average book. It also has 201% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Samuel Beckett Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 58 minutes to read Samuel Beckett aloud.

What Reading Level is Samuel Beckett?

Samuel Beckett 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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