How Long to Read The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle

How Long Does it Take to Read The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 46 minutes to read The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle by Clifford Davidson

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

Description

A modernist novel, describing a dystopian military in the imaginary dictatorship of Atlantis, written more than a half century ago when the author was a conscript in the army during the Cold War. As editor of the post newspaper at the Granite City Engineer Depot, Clifford Davidson was in a privileged position for observing the military mentality of the time, in particular the propensity for bullying intended to turn men into mindless killing machines. From other soldiers he was also able to hear disturbing stories at first hand about World War II and the very recent Korean War, only concluded four years earlier. Private Biegle was invented as an anti-hero to satirize those who those accepted authoritarianism as normative and patriotism as uncritical obedience. In other words, in the pages of the novel the author was exploring the very subversion of civil society by probing the implications of the master-slave dichotomy that had been introduced by Hegel and relatively recently put to good use in feminist thought by Jessica Benjamin. But the novel also deserves to be understood as an antic expression that foreshadows the media personality Stephen Colbert, who has popularized irony for so many in this century. Those who have read it have declared it "a good read."A critical introduction to the writing of this Orwellian novel and its relation to literature of the mid-twentieth century is provided by Oscar Haugen in the Afterword. The Apocalyptic Adventures of Winfed Scott Biegle is a work previously only known to a few readers, and now is available to a larger readership in the present edition.

How long is The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle?

The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle by Clifford Davidson is 164 pages long, and a total of 41,656 words.

This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle aloud.

What Reading Level is The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle?

The Apocalyptic Adventures of Private Winfred Scott Biegle is suitable for students ages 10 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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