It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Diary of H. L. Mencken by H.L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and provides a vivid, unvarnished, sometimes shocking picture of Mencken himself, his world, and his friends and antagonists, from Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and William Faulkner to Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom Mencken nourished a hatred that resulted in spectacular and celebrated feats of invective. From the more than 2,000 pages of typescript that have now come to light,...
Diary of H. L. Mencken by H.L. Mencken is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Diary of H. L. Mencken aloud.
Diary of H. L. Mencken is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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