It takes the average reader 7 hours and 8 minutes to read The Strange Death of a Romantic by Jim Williams
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A group of glamorous English socialites spend the summer of 1930 holidaying on the Italian Riviera where the poet Shelley died in a sailing accident in 1822. To pass the time, they tell amusing stories, much as Shelley, Byron and their friends had done a century earlier. For their theme they choose the death of Shelley and the stories progress towards a solution to the "murder mystery". Yet is that truly what the stories are about? Or, despite their witty surface, are they a code for dark and dangerous secrets hidden behind an urbane façade? Guy Parrot, a naive young doctor, finds himself...
The Strange Death of a Romantic by Jim Williams is 417 pages long, and a total of 107,169 words.
This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 131% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 45 minutes to read The Strange Death of a Romantic aloud.
The Strange Death of a Romantic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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