It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read Simone Weil by Francine Du Plessix Gray
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Simone Weil was born in Paris in 1909. Strikingly beautiful and intellectually precocious, she was reading the evening paper aloud to her family aged 5, quoting the seventeenth-century French dramatic poet, Jean Racine at 6 and, by her early teens, mastering classical Greek and several modern languages. She developed her acute social awareness during the First World War, refusing to eat sugar because the French soldiers at the front had none. In 1936 Weil joined an Anarchist unit near Zaragoza, Spain, to train for action in the Spanish Civil War, but after an accident she went to Portugal to...
Simone Weil by Francine Du Plessix Gray is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.
This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Simone Weil aloud.
Simone Weil is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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