How Long to Read Curing Hiccups with Small Fires

How Long Does it Take to Read Curing Hiccups with Small Fires?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Curing Hiccups with Small Fires by Karl Shaw

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

Description

'The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, "Well, the hiccups is gone, by God."' An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent for eccentricity to a 'mixture of fogs, beef and beer...aggravated by the tedium of the English Sunday'. Whatever the reason, the British Isles do seem to have thrown up more than their fair share of magnificent oddballs, the finest of which are profiled in this fast, funny celebration of over 200 aristocrats, inventors, artists and the just plain weird... * Dr Samuel Johnson is said to have shaved off all of his bodily hair, just to see how long it would take to grow back * Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, once related an experience he had at Westminster: 'I had a horrid nightmare. I dreamed I was making a speech in the House of Lords, and woke up to find I actually was.' * Percy Bysshe Shelley once tied a cat to a kite in a thunder storm to see if it would be electrocuted

How long is Curing Hiccups with Small Fires?

Curing Hiccups with Small Fires by Karl Shaw is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Curing Hiccups with Small Fires Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Curing Hiccups with Small Fires aloud.

What Reading Level is Curing Hiccups with Small Fires?

Curing Hiccups with Small Fires 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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