It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Wixson
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures seventy years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity. This Very Short Introduction looks at...
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Wixson is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction aloud.
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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