About This Book
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinve...
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7h 3m
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180 WPM
5h 5m
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250 WPM
3h 38m
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350 WPM
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