It takes the average reader 7 hours and 10 minutes to read The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and...
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner is 424 pages long, and a total of 107,696 words.
This makes it 143% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 48 minutes to read The Corner That Held Them aloud.
The Corner That Held Them is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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