How Long to Read A Mencken Chrestomathy

How Long Does it Take to Read A Mencken Chrestomathy?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 15 minutes to read A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong—but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the American Mercury, the Smart Set, and the Baltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all. Readers will find edification and amusement in his estimates of a variety of Americans—Woodrow Wilson, Aimee Semple McPherson, Roosevelt I and Roosevelt II, James Gibbons Huneker, Rudolph Valentino, Calvin Coolidge, Ring Lardner, Theodore Dreiser, and Walt Whitman. Those musically inclined will enjoy his pieces on Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner, and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad, Thorstein Veblen, Nietzsche, and Madame Blavatsky.

How long is A Mencken Chrestomathy?

A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken is 657 pages long, and a total of 168,849 words.

This makes it 222% the length of the average book. It also has 206% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Mencken Chrestomathy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 22 minutes to read A Mencken Chrestomathy aloud.

What Reading Level is A Mencken Chrestomathy?

A Mencken Chrestomathy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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