It takes the average reader and 52 minutes to read The City That Was, a Requiem of Old San Francisco by Will Irwin
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The old San Francisco is dead. The gayest, lightest hearted, most pleasure loving city of the western continent, and in many ways the most romantic, is a horde of refugees living among ruins. It may rebuild; it probably will; but those who have known that peculiar city by the Golden Gate, have caught its flavor of the Arabian Nights, feel that it can never be the same. -from The City That Was A hundred years ago, San Francisco was devastated by earthquake and fire, and immediately after, reporter Will Irwin of the New York Sun, and formerly of the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote an elegy for...
The City That Was, a Requiem of Old San Francisco by Will Irwin is 52 pages long, and a total of 13,104 words.
This makes it 18% the length of the average book. It also has 16% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 11 minutes to read The City That Was, a Requiem of Old San Francisco aloud.
The City That Was, a Requiem of Old San Francisco is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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