How Long to Read Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
By David J. Skal
How Long Does it Take to Read Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula?
It takes the average reader 11 hours and 17 minutes to read Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
A 2017 Edgar Award Finalist A revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth, bringing us "the closest we can get to understanding [Bram Stoker] and his iconic tale" (The New Yorker). In this groundbreaking portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal "pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire" (TIME magazine). Examining the myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siecle, Skal stages Bram Stoker’s infirm childhood against a grisly tableau of medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that pervades Dracula. In later years, Stoker’s ambiguous sexuality is explored through his passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving, and his romantic rivalry with lifelong acquaintance Oscar Wilde—here portrayed as a stranger-than-fiction doppelgänger. Recalling the psychosexual contours of Stoker’s life and art in splendidly gothic detail, Something in the Blood is the definitive biography for years to come.
How long is Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula?
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal is 672 pages long, and a total of 169,344 words.
This makes it 227% the length of the average book. It also has 207% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 25 minutes to read Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula aloud.
What Reading Level is Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula?
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula 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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