It takes the average reader and 33 minutes to read Sherlock Holmes in Advertising by Amanda J Field
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This fascinating book explores the way that Sherlock Holmes has been appropriated by British businesses to advertise everything from carpets and tyres, to honey and whisky. Somerset Maugham believed that Holmes had survived so long in the public imagination because Arthur Conan Doyle had hammered the detective’s idiosyncracies into the minds of his readers with ‘the same pertinacity as the great advertisers use to proclaim the merits of their soap, beer or cigarettes’. Linking Holmes with consumer products in this way implies that the detective was becoming a ‘brand’ in his own right. But if...
Sherlock Holmes in Advertising by Amanda J Field is 33 pages long, and a total of 8,349 words.
This makes it 11% the length of the average book. It also has 10% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 45 minutes to read Sherlock Holmes in Advertising aloud.
Sherlock Holmes in Advertising is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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