It takes the average reader 2 hours and 16 minutes to read Alice in Blunderland by John Kendrick Bangs
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Excerpt: ...in the pursuit of life, liberty and german favours, and when any of the Terpsichorean Force finds a girl with red hair and snub nose with freckles on it decorating the wall and being neglected at a cotillion, it is his duty to plunge in and either dance with her himself, or put some Willieboy under Pg 65 arrest until he calls her out and gives her the time of her life. You can't imagine what wonderful results this Municipal Control of that social situation has done in the line of popularising plain girls." "It sounds very interesting," Alice ventured. "I should think the girls would like it." "They do," said the Dormouse. "The only objection to it comes from the Willieboys, but nobody cares much what they think because there aren't many of them that can think." "And is that all you do?" asked Alice. "Oh, no indeed," said the Dormouse. "We keep reserves for Bridge Parties at the Station all the time, so that if any taxpayer ever needs a fourth hand to make up a game all he has to do is to ring up headquarters and get an ossifer to come up and play. In addition to this we look after old ladies who want to go shopping and aren't strong enough to Pg 66 break through the rush line at the bargain counters. And then once in a while somebody's baby will wake up at three o'clock in the morning and demand the moon, and we go up and attend to it." "What?" cried Alice in amazement. "You don't mean to say you give it the moon?" "Not exactly," said the Dormouse. "We just promise to give it. That's one of the strong points about Municipal Ownership. It's the easiest system to make promises under you ever knew. You can promise anything, and later on if you don't make good you can promise something better, and so on. It works very well in a great many places." "WE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY TO THE CALL" "But that isn't really what we go up to the house for. We go up to relieve the poor tired parents who have been working hard all day and are too weary to walk up...
Alice in Blunderland by John Kendrick Bangs is 134 pages long, and a total of 34,036 words.
This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Alice in Blunderland aloud.
Alice in Blunderland is suitable for students ages 10 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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