How Long to Read Temptation

How Long Does it Take to Read Temptation?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 53 minutes to read Temptation by Janos Szekely

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

Description

A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Temptation is a rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction, a Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Béla is packed off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman the moment he is born. She starves and bullies him, and keeps him out of school. He does his best to hold his own, and eventually his mother brings him back to live with her in the city. In thrall to his feckless father, Mishka, and living in a crowded tenement, she works her fingers to the bone, while Béla shares a room with a hardworking prostitute. Finally, Béla secures a job in a fancy hotel. Though exhausted by endless work, he is fascinated by the upper-crust world that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Béla grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with all the odds still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for a new future.

How long is Temptation?

Temptation by Janos Szekely is 689 pages long, and a total of 178,451 words.

This makes it 233% the length of the average book. It also has 218% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Temptation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 15 minutes to read Temptation aloud.

What Reading Level is Temptation?

Temptation 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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