How Long to Read Paris Spleen

By Charles Baudelaire

How Long Does it Take to Read Paris Spleen?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire

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

Description

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words "dangerous"—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of the lyrical with the sardonic, Le Spleen de Paris may be regarded as one of the earliest and most successful examples of a specifically urban writing, the textual equivalent of the city scenes of...

How long is Paris Spleen?

Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Paris Spleen Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read Paris Spleen aloud.

What Reading Level is Paris Spleen?

Paris Spleen is suitable for students ages 10 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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