How Long to Read Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

How Long Does it Take to Read Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte?

It takes the average reader 27 hours and 25 minutes to read Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

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Description

In introducing the present edition of M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs to the public we are bound, as Editors, to say a few Words on the subject. Agreeing, however, with Horace Walpole that an editor should not dwell for any length of time on the merits of his author, we shall touch but lightly on this part of the matter. We are the more ready to abstain since the great success in England of the former editions of these Memoirs, and the high reputation they have acquired on the European Continent, and in every part of the civilised world where the fame of Bonaparte has ever reached, sufficiently establish the merits of M. de Bourrienne as a biographer. These merits seem to us to consist chiefly in an anxious desire to be impartial, to point out the defects as well as the merits of a most wonderful man; and in a peculiarly graphic power of relating facts and anecdotes. With this happy faculty Bourrienne would have made the life of almost any active individual interesting; but the subject of which the most favourable circumstances permitted him to treat was full of events and of the most extraordinary facts. The hero of his story was such a being as the world has produced only on the rarest occasions, and the complete counterpart to whom has, probably, never existed; for there are broad shades of difference between Napoleon and Alexander, Caesar, and Charlemagne; neither will modern history furnish more exact parallels, since Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great, Cromwell, Washington, or Bolivar bear but a small resemblance to Bonaparte either in character, fortune, or extent of enterprise. For fourteen years, to say nothing of his projects in the East, the history of Bonaparte was the history of all Europe! With the copious materials he possessed, M. de Bourrienne has produced a work which, for deep interest, excitement, and amusement, can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numerous and excellent memoirs for which the literature of France is so justly celebrated. M.

How long is Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte?

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne is 1,632 pages long, and a total of 411,264 words.

This makes it 551% the length of the average book. It also has 503% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 37 hours and 27 minutes to read Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte aloud.

What Reading Level is Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte?

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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