A Separate Peace
About this book
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over sixty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
Reader Profile
3.6/5 · 235943 readers · 60 pages · ≈ 1 h 07 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read A Separate Peace?
About ≈ 1 h 07 m — 60 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is A Separate Peace?
60 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is A Separate Peace?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Has A Separate Peace been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include A Separate Peace (1972).
Is A Separate Peace in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote A Separate Peace?
John Knowles.