How Long to Read Secret Love and Other Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Secret Love and Other Stories?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Secret Love and Other Stories by Jillian Becker

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

Description

These stories, variously set in South Africa, England, and Germany between the late 19th and the late 20th century, were written at intervals through the long life of the writer. They are concerned with love and hate, guilt and loneliness, generational rebellion; and also with prejudice in matters of Race, Religion and Class - in every case from an unexpected angle. The story of a wife and mother who is deeply content with her family life, believing it bound securely by faithful love, touches lightly but ominously on the precariousness of happiness. A woman, blaming the cold snobbery of her wealthy parents for her loneliness, tries but fails to find happiness through marriage into a lower class. A Jewish woman, sensitive to the prejudice against her own race, is unconscious of the fault in herself, and while imagining herself to be the subject of injustice is actually the inflictor of it. A teenage girl tells the story of her heroic half-sister, for whose tragic fate in childhood she mistakenly blames herself. A German who fought involuntarily for the Third Reich, finds a father-figure in an African, only for his affection to be bitterly destroyed by the revelation of the black man's implacable hatred for white men. The last story is about a beautiful, gifted, graceful woman whose parents consider her too good to marry an ordinary man. They buy a "nobleman" for her - to the ruin of themselves and their daughter. But this story, alone of the six in the collection, has a happy ending.

How long is Secret Love and Other Stories?

Secret Love and Other Stories by Jillian Becker is 372 pages long, and a total of 93,744 words.

This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Secret Love and Other Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Secret Love and Other Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Secret Love and Other Stories?

Secret Love and Other Stories 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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