It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction by Jenny Hartley
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His characters have such vitality that they have leapt from his pages to enjoy flourishing lives of their own: The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Scrooge, Fagin, Mr Micawber, and many many more. His portrait has been in our pockets, on our ten-pound notes; he is a national icon, indeed himself a generator of what Englishness...
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction by Jenny Hartley is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.
This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction aloud.
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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