How Long to Read The Romance of Teresa Hennert

How Long Does it Take to Read The Romance of Teresa Hennert?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 11 minutes to read The Romance of Teresa Hennert by Zofia Nalkowska

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

Description

The Romance of Teresa Hennert is a masterpiece of psychological realism and a still-shocking portrait of mixed motives and bad behavior. It renders a tragicomic vision of what happens when a society is suddenly deprived of the struggle that had defined it for more than a century. Written in 1922, just four years after Poland achieved independence from its neighboring empires, the novel focuses on a Warsaw community of officers, bureaucrats, intellectuals, wives, and lovers, all of them adrift in a hell of their own making—the long-sought freedom to shape their own destiny. At the center of this milieu is Teresa Hennert, whose youthful charm, modern habits, and apparent indifference to the emotional torment of those around her make her an inescapable object of their fascination and desire. Told in multiple voices and from numerous perspectives, Zofia Nalkowska's novel is a mosaic of dysfunction at all levels of the new Polish society, from a bumbling lieutenant who cannot stand his home life to a young Communist who believes his forebears have made a mess that only the next generation can clean up. In this world, ideological battles, personal animosity, postwar trauma, and infidelity become inextricably bound together, driving these colorful, increasingly confused characters toward corruption, suicide, and murder. Nalkowska (1884–1954), though long neglected in the West, was a central figure in the literary life of interwar Poland and was an early pioneer of feminist fiction in Central Europe. Her spare, witty prose will surprise contemporary readers with its frank sexuality and stark illustration of dreams gone horribly, humiliatingly, dramatically awry.

How long is The Romance of Teresa Hennert?

The Romance of Teresa Hennert by Zofia Nalkowska is 191 pages long, and a total of 47,941 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Romance of Teresa Hennert Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 21 minutes to read The Romance of Teresa Hennert aloud.

What Reading Level is The Romance of Teresa Hennert?

The Romance of Teresa Hennert is suitable for students ages 10 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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