Reading Level
What is the reading level of To the Lighthouse?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of To the Lighthouse is 10th and 11th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
To the Lighthouse
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 11 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
4 hrs 44 mins
How long to read To the Lighthouse?
The estimated word count of To the Lighthouse is 70,990 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 44 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 7 hrs 54 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 38 mins.
| To the Lighthouse - 70,990 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 7 hrs 54 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 44 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 38 mins |
- Authors
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Virginia Woolf
More about To the Lighthouse
70,990 words
Word Count
for To the Lighthouse
280 pages
Pages
7 hours and 38 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To the Lighthouse is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality. Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. Though it is the death of Mrs. Ramsay on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory that is also a celebration of domestic life and its most intimate details. Virginia Woolf’s great book enacts a powerful allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life.