It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell...
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Against Nature aloud.
Against Nature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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