It takes the average reader 7 hours and 55 minutes to read Killing the Moonlight by Jennifer Scappettone
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase. Spanning the history of...
Killing the Moonlight by Jennifer Scappettone is 472 pages long, and a total of 118,944 words.
This makes it 159% the length of the average book. It also has 145% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 49 minutes to read Killing the Moonlight aloud.
Killing the Moonlight is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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