It takes the average reader 10 hours and 27 minutes to read Mr. Lear by Jenny Uglow
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow We know Edward Lear as a genius of nonsense, full of shocks and surprises, and as a poet of strange loves—“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” “The Dong with a Luminous Nose.” We may know him, too, for his paintings of parrots and owls, or for his luminous landscapes. But do we know that he taught Queen Victoria to draw, traveled alone across the wild Albanian mountains, and waded through muddy fields with Tennyson? Lear lived all his life on the borders of rules and structures, of disciplines and...
Mr. Lear by Jenny Uglow is 608 pages long, and a total of 156,864 words.
This makes it 205% the length of the average book. It also has 192% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 17 minutes to read Mr. Lear aloud.
Mr. Lear is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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