How Long to Read This Everlasting Silence

How Long Does it Take to Read This Everlasting Silence?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 17 minutes to read This Everlasting Silence by Nancy Robinson Flannery

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

Description

Nancy Robinson Flannery has done a fine job of editing these unabridged letters. They make poignant reading and are a reminder that even heroes suffer the same doubts and frailties as the rest of us.’ (Elizabeth Dean, Australian Book Review, June 2000) Dark-eyed beauty Paquita Delprat, 17, first noticed the dashing Douglas Mawson, 27, at a function in Adelaide in 1909. By the end of 1910 they were engaged to be married. The only cloud on the horizon was Douglas’s impending expedition to Antarctica. He expected to be away for fifteen months, but they did not count on the disastrous trek from which he staggered back, alone and close to death, to find that the waiting Aurora had given up and steamed away only hours earlier. Douglas was stranded for another full year, and the lovers’ endurance was stretched to the limit. Long months intervened between ships to and from Antarctica. Letters from Douglas arrived in two batches, delivered twenty-two months apart. In one letter Paquita wailed, ‘This everlasting silence is almost unbearable . . . ’ The longer the lovers were apart, the more doubt, anxiety and despair crept into their correspondence, and the reader senses the growing strain on both sides. Touchingly, Douglas kept Paquita’s letters all his life. Nancy Flannery first saw them in 1991 among the papers his Estate had entrusted to the University of Adelaide, and was intrigued to glimpse the emotional life of the austere explorer-scientist. Six years later, she found Douglas’s letters to Paquita among private family papers, thus completing both sides of this romantic story.

How long is This Everlasting Silence?

This Everlasting Silence by Nancy Robinson Flannery is 194 pages long, and a total of 49,276 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read This Everlasting Silence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 29 minutes to read This Everlasting Silence aloud.

What Reading Level is This Everlasting Silence?

This Everlasting Silence is suitable for students ages 10 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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