How Long to Read Wilkie Collins

How Long Does it Take to Read Wilkie Collins?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read Wilkie Collins by Andrew Lycett

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

Description

This is the definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation. Part biography, part history, part intimate family saga, Wilkie Collins brings to life one of England's greatest writers against the backdrop of Victorian London and all its complexities. It is a truly sensational story. 1868, and bestselling author Wilkie Collins is hard at work on a new detective novel, The Moonstone. But he is weighed down by a mountain of problems - his own sickness, the death of his mother, and, most pressing, the announcement by his live-in mistress that she has tired of his relationship with another woman and intends to marry someone else. His solution is to increase his industrial intake of opium and knuckle down to writing the book T. S. Eliot called the 'greatest' English detective novel. Of Wilkie's domestic difficulties, not a word to the outside world: indeed, like his great friend Charles Dickens, he took pains to keep secret any detail of his menage. There's no doubt that the arrangement was unusual and, for Wilkie, precarious, particularly since his own books focused on uncovering such deeply held family secrets. Indeed, he was the master of the Victorian sensation novel, fiction that left readers on the edge of their seats as mysteries and revelations abounded.

How long is Wilkie Collins?

Wilkie Collins by Andrew Lycett is 546 pages long, and a total of 139,776 words.

This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Wilkie Collins Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 43 minutes to read Wilkie Collins aloud.

What Reading Level is Wilkie Collins?

Wilkie Collins is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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