It takes the average reader 2 hours and 49 minutes to read The Beardsley Industry by Jane Haville Desmarais
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First published in 1998, this is the first book to examine the critical reception accorded to Beardsley’s work. For most of his short working life fierce debate raged in Britain over the merit of Aubrey Beardsley’s black and white drawings. Applauded for their technical skill, they were as often deplored for their ‘slimy nastiness’, their fin-de-siècle decadence and their foreign styles. There are ‘tainted whiffs from across the channel which lodge the Gallic germs in our lungs. Our Beardsleys have identical symptoms with Verlaine, Degas, Le Grand, Forain, and might quite well be sick from...
The Beardsley Industry by Jane Haville Desmarais is 166 pages long, and a total of 42,496 words.
This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 52 minutes to read The Beardsley Industry aloud.
The Beardsley Industry is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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