It takes the average reader 14 hours and 36 minutes to read W. B. Yeats: A Life II by R. F. Foster
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The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems: 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole' in their stark simplicity; the magnificently complex sequences on the...
W. B. Yeats: A Life II by R. F. Foster is 856 pages long, and a total of 219,136 words.
This makes it 289% the length of the average book. It also has 268% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 19 hours and 57 minutes to read W. B. Yeats: A Life II aloud.
W. B. Yeats: A Life II is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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