How Long to Read Elsie Venner

How Long Does it Take to Read Elsie Venner?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Elsie Venner by Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Description

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809 1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer and author. Holmes wrote his first book of essays entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table in 1831. While in medical training Holmes was able to write another two essays detailing life as seen from his boarding house breakfast table. Elsie Venner was serialized in the Atlantic Monthly beginning in 1859. An excerpt from the preface reads, The real aim, of the story was to test the doctrine of "original sin" and human responsibility for the disordered volition coming under that technical denomination. Was Elsie Venner, poisoned by the venom of a crotalus before she was born, morally responsible for the "volitional" aberrations, which translated into acts become what is known as sin, and, it may be, what is punished as crime? If, on presentation of the evidence, she becomes by the verdict of the human conscience a proper object of divine pity and not of divine wrath, as a subject of moral poisoning, wherein lies the difference between her position at the bar of judgment, human or divine, and that of the unfortunate victim who received a moral poison from a remote ancestor before he drew his first breath?

How long is Elsie Venner?

Elsie Venner by Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Elsie Venner Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Elsie Venner aloud.

What Reading Level is Elsie Venner?

Elsie Venner 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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