It takes the average reader 7 hours and 35 minutes to read The Military Orchid and Other Novels by Jocelyn Brooke
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
'Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ... a great writer.' Elizabeth Bowen Flowers and fireworks, botany and pyrotechny: these were the twin passions of a delicate, sensitive boy growing up before the Great War. Part-memoir, part-imaginative re-creation, these novels evoke a tranquil England where orchids grew wild and undiscovered and a young boy's dreams and disappointments were as simple and moving as a guinea box of fireworks. From the mellow Kentish villages of his boyhood, to the brusque masculinity of the army, by way of painful years at prep school and Oxford, Jocelyn Brooke beautifully captures the torment and the delight of being a constant outsider. Witty, subtle and deceptively simple these three novels were highly acclaimed for the way they captured the unfolding of a melancholy, often painfully sensitive male consciousness, evoking a quintessentially English life.
The Military Orchid and Other Novels by Jocelyn Brooke is 452 pages long, and a total of 113,904 words.
This makes it 153% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 22 minutes to read The Military Orchid and Other Novels aloud.
The Military Orchid and Other Novels is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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