It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read The Wild Olive - Basil King by Basil King
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A passage from the book... Finding himself in the level wood-road, whose open aisle drew a long, straight streak across the sky, still luminous with the late-lingering Adirondack twilight, the tall young fugitive, hatless, coatless, and barefooted, paused a minute for reflection. As he paused, he listened; but all distinctiveness of sound was lost in the play of the wind, up hill and down dale, through chasm and over crag, in those uncounted leagues of forest. It was only a summer wind, soft and from the south; but its murmur had the sweep of the eternal breath, while, when it waxed in power, it rose like the swell of some great cosmic organ. Through the pines and in the underbrush it whispered and crackled and crashed, with a variety of effect strangely bewildering to the young man's city-nurtured senses. There were minutes when he felt that not only the four country constables whom he had escaped were about to burst upon him, but that weird armies of gnomes were ready to trample him down.Out of the confusion of wood-noises, in which his unpractised ear could distinguish nothing, he waited for a repetition of the shots which a few hours ago had been the protest of his guards; but, none coming, he sped on again. He weighed the danger of running in the open against the opportunities for speed, and decided in favor of the latter.
The Wild Olive - Basil King by Basil King is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.
This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read The Wild Olive - Basil King aloud.
The Wild Olive - Basil King is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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