It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read The Great Hunger by Thomas Keneally
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A young peasant woman and her family are caught in the mangle of the Famine and its accompanying fevers, is torn between a peasant lover, a rural, impulsive rebel, and the articulate gentleman young Irelander Thomas Francis Meagher whom she has enchanted. Bewildered and distracted by conflicting loves, she endures every phase of the Famine, and is at the one time the beauty and the crone that symbolises Famine Ireland.
The Great Hunger by Thomas Keneally is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read The Great Hunger aloud.
The Great Hunger is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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