It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read The 1940 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently published Swinging the Maelstrom and In Ballast to the White Sea, The 1940 Under the Volcano takes its rightful place as part of Lowry’s exciting 1930s/early-40s trilogy. Scholars have only recently begun to pay systematic attention to convergences and divergences between this earlier work and the 1947 version....
The 1940 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.
This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read The 1940 Under the Volcano aloud.
The 1940 Under the Volcano is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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