How Long to Read The Angel of History

How Long Does it Take to Read The Angel of History?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 38 minutes to read The Angel of History by Carolyn Forche

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

Description

Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable,...

How long is The Angel of History?

The Angel of History by Carolyn Forche is 96 pages long, and a total of 24,576 words.

This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Angel of History Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 14 minutes to read The Angel of History aloud.

What Reading Level is The Angel of History?

The Angel of History is suitable for students ages 10 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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