How Long to Read Fabulous Machinery for the Curious

How Long Does it Take to Read Fabulous Machinery for the Curious?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 1 minute to read Fabulous Machinery for the Curious by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

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

Description

An absorbing, joyous, and colorful collection of stories from the qissa genre. Fabulous Machinery for the Curious presents the first English translation of some of the finest texts from the qissa genre. In this book, acclaimed translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi gathers the greatest of these tales, written or transcribed in the Urdu language by master storytellers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Spreading from Persia to Arabia to South Asia over 1,500 years, the qissa appropriated verse and prose narratives to become the preeminent storytelling genre. The combined traditions of the many cultures of Indo-Islamic civilization resulted in a flowering of qissas in Urdu. This collection distills a vast body of oral and written literature, from resplendent sagas of romantic love and thrilling adventures in fairyland to picaresque stories of deception and haunting tales of nobility and viciousness. Fabulous Machinery for the Curious brings these forgotten gems to a new generation of readers and reminds us of the abiding power that great stories and ancient genres have for engaging the contemporary world.

How long is Fabulous Machinery for the Curious?

Fabulous Machinery for the Curious by Musharraf Ali Farooqi is 408 pages long, and a total of 105,264 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fabulous Machinery for the Curious Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 35 minutes to read Fabulous Machinery for the Curious aloud.

What Reading Level is Fabulous Machinery for the Curious?

Fabulous Machinery for the Curious 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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