It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and...
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Quixote: The Novel and the World aloud.
Quixote: The Novel and the World is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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