It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Mr. Mygale's Hobby by Francesca Maria Steele
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Excerpt from Mr. Mygale's Hobby: A Story About Spiders Yes, strange as it may appear, he loved Spiders, and what is even stranger, it is exceedingly doubtful whether he loved anything else. Report said he did not, unless he loved himself; and his neighbours maintained this was impossible, so exceedingly nu lovable did he seem to them to be. Poor Mr. Mygale! He deserved to be pitied, and 'pity, ' we know, is akin to love, ' for he had not a single relative in the world nearer than a distant cousin. He had no friends; he lived alone - no, not alone but with his spiders. He never had any visitors, he never paid-any visits, indeed, he seldom went out, except in his own grounds; but he sometimes was absent from home for months at a time, for he travelled a good deal, always with the same object in view, and that object was Spiders. But poor Mr. Mygale was not poor in this world's goods on the contrary, he was rich. His house, and the park in which it stood, were his own, and he had a large income; nevertheless, he lived very Simply; he kept no large establishment, all the house (with the exception of two or three rooms for his use, and two or three more for the man and his wife who were his only servants) was Shut up, and only opened occasion ally to be aired and cleaned. He kept no horses or carriages; the garden was neglected, except about half-an-acre of kitchen garden, which the man-servant kept in order. He had no dogs, no pets of any kind, always excepting his spiders. He was a little man, very thin, and always dressed in a very tight suit of black clothes; in the summer these clothes were made of alpaca, in the winter, of velvet; in the evening, both summer and winter, oi cloth, but always black, and always so tight that one wondered first how he got into them, and secondly how, having achieved that feat, he ever got out of them again. He was ugly, decidedly ugly: he had small eyes with Shaggy eyebrows, a Short thick nose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Mr. Mygale's Hobby by Francesca Maria Steele is 210 pages long, and a total of 52,500 words.
This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Mr. Mygale's Hobby aloud.
Mr. Mygale's Hobby is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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