How Long to Read Boswell's Edinburgh Journals

How Long Does it Take to Read Boswell's Edinburgh Journals?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 23 minutes to read Boswell's Edinburgh Journals by Hugh Milne

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

Description

James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.This is a one-volume edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Hugh Milne's introduction and notes remove the barriers that time has placed between us and Boswell. The result is a book in which an extraordinary personality lives before us upon the page. Boswell embodied in himself all the extremes and contradictions of his time and place. This was the Edinburgh of the Enlightenment, and among his friends he counted thinkers like David Hume and Adam Smith, and entertained eminent visitors like Dr Johnson. Boswell was alive to every new social or political idea and was interested in all the drama of human life, whether high or low. All Boswell's public and private doings, and his inner debates about religion and the meaning of life, go unedited into his journal. His vivid description of a whole gallery of characters and situations makes its pages compulsively readable.

How long is Boswell's Edinburgh Journals?

Boswell's Edinburgh Journals by Hugh Milne is 726 pages long, and a total of 185,856 words.

This makes it 245% the length of the average book. It also has 227% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Boswell's Edinburgh Journals Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 55 minutes to read Boswell's Edinburgh Journals aloud.

What Reading Level is Boswell's Edinburgh Journals?

Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 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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