How long does it take to read Tending the Heart of Virtue?
Vigen Guroian
Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian takes about 3 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 203 pages, about 55,825 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid to Charlotte's Web, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, and the Narnia Chronicles - he argues that these tales capture the meaning of morality through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, in which characters must make difficult choices between right and wrong, or heroes and villains contest the very fate of imaginary worlds. Character and the virtues are depicted compellingly in these stories; the virtues glimmer as if in a looking glass, and wickedness and deception are unmasked of their pretensions to goodness and truth. We are made to face the unvarnished truth about ourselves, and what kind of people we want to be." "Throughout, Guroian highlights the classical moral virtues such as courage, goodness, and honesty, especially as they are understood in traditional Christianity."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects, Literature and morals, Books and reading, Children, History and criticism, Das Böse
