How long does it take to read Gift from the Sea?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh takes about 2 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 32 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1955. 138 pages, about 37,950 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From inside flap- "Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on a woman's life were matured in active years of family living and stimulated by conversations with men and women who experience the same problems and feel the same need for assessing the true values of life. The setting of her book is the sea shore; the time, a brief vacation which had lifted her from the distractions of everyday existence into the sphere of meditation. As the sea tosses up its gifts - shells rare and perfect - so the mind, left to its ponderings, brings up its own treasures of the deep. And the shells become symbols here for the various aspects of life she is contemplating. In a blend of complete sincerity and delicacy, so uniquely her own, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares with the reader her awareness of the many frustrating elements we face today: the restlessness, the unending pressures and demands, the denial of leisure and silence, the threat to inner peace and integration, the uneasy balance of the opposites, man and woman. With radiant lucidity she makes visible again the values of the inner life, without which there is no true fulfillment. She does this without the overtones of preaching, but herself as a seeker, echoing - only clearer and stronger - our own small still voice."
Subjects: Life, Ontology, Philosophy, Biology
