How Long to Read New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

How Long Does it Take to Read New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 24 minutes to read New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches by George G. Foster

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

Description

First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum—the underground story—of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.

How long is New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches?

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches by George G. Foster is 262 pages long, and a total of 66,024 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours to read New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches aloud.

What Reading Level is New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches?

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches 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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