How Long to Read The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee by Valerie Grove

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wanderings through Spain retold in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, to his dramatic experiences fighting Franco's forces in A Moment of War. As a poet, playwright, broadcaster and writer, Laurie Lee created a legend around himself that would see him safely secured in the literary canon even within his own lifetime. Yet, though he wrote exclusively about his own life, Lee never told the whole story. His readers know him as a man devoted to two women: his wife and his daughter, 'the firstborn'. Among the pages of his published works there is little trace of the girls he left behind. He never identifi ed in print the girl who inspired him to go to Spain, or the woman who supported him there. He never named the beautiful mistress he came home to, who was the great love of his young life and who led him into literary London, bore his child and broke his heart. In The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee, acclaimed biographer Valerie Grove delves into the letters and diaries he kept hidden from the world, building on her magisterial study of the charismatic poet to capture the essence of this romantic, elusive enigma and bring him to life once more.

How long is The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee?

The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee by Valerie Grove is 382 pages long, and a total of 96,264 words.

This makes it 129% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 46 minutes to read The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee?

The Life and Loves of Laurie Lee is suitable for students ages 12 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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