It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl by Italo Svevo
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
...the sin of an old man is equal to about two sins of a young man. The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns--attraction of an older man to a younger woman, individual conscience versus social convention, and the cost of sexual desire. This novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragic-comic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolf for her Hogarth Press. The Art of The Novella Series...
The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl by Italo Svevo is 92 pages long, and a total of 23,184 words.
This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 6 minutes to read The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl aloud.
The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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