How Long to Read The Absentee

How Long Does it Take to Read The Absentee?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

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

Description

'The Absentee' is a novel by Maria Edgeworth that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. The story begins with, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, who just before coming of age, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. His mother wishes him to marry an heiress, Miss Broadhurst, who is a friend of Grace Nugent. However, Colambre has already fallen in love with his cousin, Grace Nugent, who lives with the family as a companion to Lady Clonbrony. Worried that his mother will pressure him into a marriage with someone he does not love, Colambre decides to leave the London social scene and visit his ancestral home in County Wicklow in Ireland. There are many turns of plot and much information about Ireland as well as Irish dialect and details of shallow London fashionable life, and the egregious results of the propertied classes treating their Irish lands as a resource to be exploited rather than as a relationship among classes and with the land.

How long is The Absentee?

The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth is 270 pages long, and a total of 67,500 words.

This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Absentee Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 8 minutes to read The Absentee aloud.

What Reading Level is The Absentee?

The Absentee 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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