It takes the average reader 2 hours and 36 minutes to read The Glorious Ones by Francine Prose
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The story of a troupe of actors in seventeenth-century Italy, from “one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers” (Gary Shteyngart). The Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe of actors, traveling up and down the seventeenth-century Italian countryside performing commedia dell’arte for kings, for peasants, for anyone with coin. There is Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; chattering Columbina; Pantalone the miser; and the wicked Brighella—all led by Flaminio Scala, the self-proclaimed most courageous man in Christendom. But for all their wild differences, not one of them is...
The Glorious Ones by Francine Prose is 154 pages long, and a total of 39,116 words.
This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to read The Glorious Ones aloud.
The Glorious Ones 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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