It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, at odds with and yet dependent on his bourgeois family. Then, drawing on Flaubert's voluminous correspondence, Steegmuller tracks his subject through friendships and love affairs, a trip to the Orient, nervous breakdown and tenuous recovery, and...
Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Flaubert and Madame Bovary aloud.
Flaubert and Madame Bovary is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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