It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks by Peter Gay
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great...
Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks by Peter Gay is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks aloud.
Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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