It takes the average reader 2 hours and 56 minutes to read The Solitude of Compassion by Jean Giono
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Solitude of Compassion, a collection of short stories never before available in English, won popular acclaim when it was originally published in France in 1932. It tells of small-town life in Provence, drawing on a whole village of fictional characters, often warm and decent, at times immoral and coarse. Giono writes of a friendship forged in a battlefield trench in the midst of World War I; an old man’s discovery of the song of the world; and, in the title story, the not-unrelated feelings of compassion and pity. In these twenty stories, Giono reveals his marvelous storytelling through...
The Solitude of Compassion by Jean Giono is 174 pages long, and a total of 44,196 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 54% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 1 minute to read The Solitude of Compassion aloud.
The Solitude of Compassion is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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