It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read The Yellow Sofa by José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While...
The Yellow Sofa by José Maria de Eça de Queirós is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read The Yellow Sofa aloud.
The Yellow Sofa is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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