How Long to Read Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

How Long Does it Take to Read Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 48 minutes to read Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

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

Description

John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the genre. From the outset it was mired in disrepute. Cleland penned the novel to liberate himself from debtors’ prison, and the book’s manifestly lewd content led to its legal suppression within a year of publication. Though versions of the novel, nearly always abridged in some form, continued to find a way into print, the Memoirs remained an underground text until the 1960s. Only as that decade ushered in a culture less socially deferential and more sexually permissive was the moment opportune for the obscenity ban to be successfully challenged. Cleland’s novel is a triumph of literary style, resting on his invention of an entirely new, vividly metaphoric, terminology for describing sexual pleasure. This Broadview Edition provides extensive materials on Cleland’s biography and career, contemporary censorship, and pornography and prostitution in the eighteenth century.

How long is Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure?

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland is 338 pages long, and a total of 87,204 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 56 minutes to read Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure aloud.

What Reading Level is Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure?

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 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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