It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within...
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Ship Fever: Stories aloud.
Ship Fever: Stories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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