It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read The Marvellous Boy by Linda Kelly
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccupations - suicide, youth and neglected genius. During the two ensuing centuries, Chatterton has become one of the most famous of literary suicides. To the Romantics in the nineteenth century, the premature death of this precocious genius became a source...
The Marvellous Boy by Linda Kelly is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read The Marvellous Boy aloud.
The Marvellous Boy is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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