It takes the average reader 8 hours and 12 minutes to read At Home with the Marquis de Sade by Francine Du Plessix Gray
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Scant attention has been paid to the women closest to the Marquis de Sade: Renee-Pelagie de Sade, his adoring wife, & his powerful mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil. This account of the scandalous life & the violent times of the Marquis de Sade is by renowned author Francine du Plessix Gray. He brings to life these women & their complex relation to Sade as they dedicated themselves to protecting him from the law curbing his excesses, & ultimately confining him. With immediacy, irony, & verve, the book also conjures up the extravagant hedonism of late-18th-century France, the ensuing terror...
At Home with the Marquis de Sade by Francine Du Plessix Gray is 491 pages long, and a total of 123,241 words.
This makes it 166% the length of the average book. It also has 151% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 13 minutes to read At Home with the Marquis de Sade aloud.
At Home with the Marquis de Sade is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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