How Long to Read Bouvard and Pecuchet

How Long Does it Take to Read Bouvard and Pecuchet?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert

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

Description

Bouvard and Pécuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalities of intellectual life in France. Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of human nature, and his pleasure in passionate friendship. The result is “a kind of encyclopedia made into...

How long is Bouvard and Pecuchet?

Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Bouvard and Pecuchet Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Bouvard and Pecuchet aloud.

What Reading Level is Bouvard and Pecuchet?

Bouvard and Pecuchet 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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