How Long to Read Playing at Monarchy

How Long Does it Take to Read Playing at Monarchy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Playing at Monarchy by Corry Cropper

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

Description

Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, M(r)rim(r)e, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature...

How long is Playing at Monarchy?

Playing at Monarchy by Corry Cropper is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Playing at Monarchy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Playing at Monarchy aloud.

What Reading Level is Playing at Monarchy?

Playing at Monarchy 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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