Reading Time
11 hrs 18 mins
How long to read Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)?
The estimated word count of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) is 169,415 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 11 hrs 18 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 18 hrs 50 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 17 mins.
| Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) - 169,415 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 18 hrs 50 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 11 hrs 18 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 6 hrs 17 mins |
- Authors
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Stacy Schiff
More about Vera
169,415 words
Word Count
for Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
18 hours and 13 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all."Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine--a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.