How Long to Read Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties

How Long Does it Take to Read Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties by S. T. Joshi

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

Description

After two centuries of literary and pop culture procreation, Victor Frankenstein and his monster are as virile as ever: synthetic biology, genetically modified organisms, artificial intelligence, the creation of one life at the cost of others. On the threshold of the third century, we stand on unforeseen shores of deep, far-reaching scientific and technological waters. And yet no truth-told tale is ever far from the sublime, the supernatural, the interior. The alchemy of art is always central to the story. In the case of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, the lives of those involved in its making were as dramatic and mysterious as any character from literature. In 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, lover and future wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, conceived the idea for Frankenstein during a summer of darkness. Within a few years of the novel's publication, three of the members involved in its conception were dead. Suicide, premature death, and tragedy are as woven into the tale as the words themselves. Frankenstein is at heart the story of a very misguided "parent" whose destructive offspring outlives him both in the novel and in our collective imagination. Ambition divorced from responsibility; genius wedded to derangement; the creator who rejects his own creation so fully he will not even give it a name. It is a tale of monsters and their monstrosities; it is thus also, of course, a very human tale, and one that continues to be written. Featuring artwork from award-winning artist Robert Payne Cabeen, this collection brings together two hundred years' worth of monstrous birthings: facts and fictions, lore and lunacy from the underground laboratories where monsters are both born and made.

How long is Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties?

Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties by S. T. Joshi is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties aloud.

What Reading Level is Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties?

Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein's Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties 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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