How Long to Read The Wisdom Of Father Brown

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wisdom Of Father Brown?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 29 minutes to read The Wisdom Of Father Brown by G K Chesterton

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

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ONE 4The Absence of Mr GlassTWO 29The Paradise of ThievesTHREE 59The Duel of Dr HirschFOUR 85The Man in the PassageFIVE 113The Mistake of the MachineSIX 139The Head of CaesarSEVEN 165The Purple WigEIGHT 188The Perishing of the PendragonsNINE 220The God of the GongsTEN 247The Salad of Colonel CrayELEVEN 271The Strange Crime of John BoulnoisTWELVE 298The Fairy Tale of Father BrownONE - The Absence of Mr GlassTHE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea. It must not be supposed that Dr Hood's apartments excluded luxury, or even poetry. These things were there, in their place; but one felt that they were never allowed out of their place. Luxury was there: there stood upon a special table eight or ten boxes of the best cigars; but they were built upon a plan so that the strongest were always nearest the wall and the mildest nearest the window. A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level. Poetry was there: the left-hand corner of the room was lined with as complete a set of English classics as the right hand could show of English and foreign physiologists. But if one took a volume of Chaucer or Shelley from that rank, its absence irritated the mind like a gap in a man's front teeth. One could not say the books were never read; probably they were, but there was a sense of their being chained to their places, like the Bibles in the old churches. Dr Hood treated his private book-shelf as if it were a public library. And if this strict scientific intangibility steeped even the shelves laden with lyrics and ballads and the tables laden with drink and tobacco, it goes without saying that yet more of such heathen holiness protected the other shelves that held the specialist's library, and the other tables that sustained the frail and even fairylike instruments of chemistry or mechanics.Dr Hood paced the length of his string of apartments, bounded-as the boys' geographies say-on the east by the North Sea and on the west by the serried ranks of his sociological and criminologist library. He was clad in an artist's velvet, but with none of an artist's negligence; his hair was heavily shot with grey, but growing thick and healthy; his face was lean, but sanguine and expectant. Everything about him and his room indicated something at once rigid and restless, like that great northern sea by which (on pure principles of hygiene) he had built his home.Fate, being in a funny mood, pushed the door open and introduced into those long, strict, sea-flanked apartments one who was perhaps the most startling opposite of them and their master. In answer to a curt but civil summons, the door opened inwards and there shambled into the room a shapeless little figure, which seemed to find its own hat and umbrella as unmanageable as a mass of luggage. The umbrella was a black and prosaic bundle long past repair; the hat was a broad-curved black hat, clerical but not common in England; the man was the very embodiment of all that is homely and helpless.

How long is The Wisdom Of Father Brown?

The Wisdom Of Father Brown by G K Chesterton is 324 pages long, and a total of 82,296 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wisdom Of Father Brown Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 29 minutes to read The Wisdom Of Father Brown aloud.

What Reading Level is The Wisdom Of Father Brown?

The Wisdom Of Father Brown is suitable for students ages 12 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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