It takes the average reader 5 hours and 7 minutes to read The Railway Man and His Children by Margaret Wilson Oliphant
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
42-year-old Evelyn Ferrars, whose family has gone down in the world, is now in India, the unpaid companion and governess in the family of an old friend, Mrs Stanhope. To everyone's amazement she is proposed to by a great railway engineer. James Rowland is a self-made man, who knew as soon as he saw Evelyn that she was "the one". And she finds him interesting and believes she can be a good wife to him. After all his years of hard work, he plans to return home and live the life he always dreamed of when a poor young engineer.This novel is in part the railway man's story - how he obtains a...
The Railway Man and His Children by Margaret Wilson Oliphant is 298 pages long, and a total of 76,884 words.
This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours to read The Railway Man and His Children aloud.
The Railway Man and His Children is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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