How Long to Read The Old Filth Trilogy

How Long Does it Take to Read The Old Filth Trilogy?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 50 minutes to read The Old Filth Trilogy by Jane Gardam

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

Description

The complete “wonderfully entertaining trilogy” about three British friends approaching their twilight years with bittersweet humor (The Washington Post). Jane Gardam’s beloved Old Filth Trilogy—including her masterpiece, Old Filth, voted one of the 100 greatest British novels in a BBC survey; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends—are here presented in one volume. Emotionally distant but highly successful Edward Feathers, aka Old Filth, a man who “belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters” (TheNew York Times Book Review), his beautiful wife Betty, and his devilishly handsome professional rival (and Betty’s onetime lover) Edward Veneering are the anchors of this series, with each novel focusing on a different character. Feathers was a “raj orphan”—children born in Far East British colonies and raised in England—while Veneering managed to get out of his fishing village-turned-industrial-town just before the German bombs dropped (and his luck has held up pretty well ever since). The three tells a bittersweet tale of enduring friendship while contending with the disappointments and consolations of age, while a once-insurmountable empire declines around them. It forms a deeply humane and often comic portrait of aging, and a reminder that the experiences we choose to take with us in our twilight years are as unpredictable as life itself. “Her prose is so perceptive and fluid that it feels mentally healthful, exiling the noise and clutter of your mind as efficiently as a Schubert sonata. She could make actuarial tables pleasurable.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gardam is the best British writer you’ve never heard of.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR

How long is The Old Filth Trilogy?

The Old Filth Trilogy by Jane Gardam is 590 pages long, and a total of 147,500 words.

This makes it 199% the length of the average book. It also has 180% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Old Filth Trilogy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 26 minutes to read The Old Filth Trilogy aloud.

What Reading Level is The Old Filth Trilogy?

The Old Filth Trilogy 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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