It takes the average reader and 44 minutes to read The Incident at Naples by Francis Steegmuller
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Born in Australia, novelist Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city, in which the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden constantly became reanimated by new experiences, as Hazzard was joined in her travels by her husband, the editor and critic Francis Steegmuller. In The Incident at Naples, a classic essay first published by the New Yorker, Steegmuller recollects on how he was, as a tourist to the city, robbed and injured and then treated in a series of hospitals. What...
The Incident at Naples by Francis Steegmuller is 44 pages long, and a total of 11,176 words.
This makes it 15% the length of the average book. It also has 14% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 1 minute to read The Incident at Naples aloud.
The Incident at Naples is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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