How Long to Read Correspondence

How Long Does it Take to Read Correspondence?

It takes the average reader 16 hours and 18 minutes to read Correspondence by Herman Melville

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

Description

"Consequently, to fill the gaps within the correspondence, 542 editorial entries are chronologically interspersed for letters both by and to Melville for which no full text has been located but for which some evidence survives. These entries, like the editorial headnotes for the known letters, flesh out the specific historical and biographical contexts for the unlocated letters. Both supply Horth's full annotations, placing circumstances, persons, and allusions, from a wide range of documentary and scholarly sources, and drawing upon family archives of both Melville and his wife, including the recently recovered portion, now in the New York Public Library, of a trove preserved by his sister Augusta." "The aim of this edition, volume fourteen in the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, is to present a text as close to the author's intention at the time of inscription as his difficult handwriting or other surviving evidence permits. On this basis, the texts earlier presented in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960), edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, have been revised, with differences in almost every letter in spelling and punctuation, and some forty-five differences in wording. Fifty-two newly discovered letters by Melville, more than half of which are first published here, are added to those printed in the 1960 edition. This text of Correspondence is an Approved Text of the Committee on Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America)."--BOOK JACKET.

How long is Correspondence?

Correspondence by Herman Melville is 948 pages long, and a total of 244,584 words.

This makes it 320% the length of the average book. It also has 299% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Correspondence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 22 hours and 16 minutes to read Correspondence aloud.

What Reading Level is Correspondence?

Correspondence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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