How Long to Read Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco

How Long Does it Take to Read Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 29 minutes to read Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry

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

Description

Presented here for the first time in English, in translations by Brian Stableford, the current volume contains two novels of the occult by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry (1843-1915), which were originally published in serial form in the Revue des Deux Mondes. The first, Stigma (1888), the author's masterpiece, is a horror story on two levels, not merely in terms of the relentless suffering inflicted on the characters, but also in the subtler sense in which it gradually undermines the identification that the reader initially assumes, automatically, with the narrator-a sympathy that is gradually and clinically drained away to the extent that he too, like every other character in the story, is stigmatized as a victim of universal human corruption, an existential condition in which the "help" rendered by a quasi-Jansenist God is as horrifically ironic as that rendered by his deluded minions. A similar track is followed in the second novel, The Pompeiian Fresco to a scathing coda-which, juxtaposed and coupled with the melodramatic climax-raises the question of how, in the hands of an honest writer, stories can and ought to end, once Amour and Faith have both been discounted as realistic possibilities of happiness.

How long is Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco?

Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry is 324 pages long, and a total of 82,296 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 29 minutes to read Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco aloud.

What Reading Level is Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco?

Stigma and the Pompeiian Fresco 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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