How Long to Read The Bon Gaultier Ballads

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bon Gaultier Ballads?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 55 minutes to read The Bon Gaultier Ballads by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun

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

Description

The Bon Gaultier Ballads W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun A further edition of this book-the sixteenth-having been called for, I have been asked by the publishers to furnish a preface to it. For prefaces I have no love. Books should speak for themselves. Prefaces can scarcely be otherwise than egotistic, and one would not willingly add to the too numerous illustrations of this tendency with which the literature of the day abounds. I would much rather leave the volume with the simple "Envoy" which I wrote for it when the Bon Gaultier Ballads were first gathered into a volume. There the products of the dual authorship of Aytoun and myself were ascribed to the Bon Gaultier under whose editorial auspices they had for the most part seen the light. But my publishers tell me that people want to know why, and how, and by which of us these poems were written, -curiosity, complimentary, no doubt, but which it is by no means easy for the surviving bard to satisfy. It is sixty years since most of these verses were written with the light heart and fluent pen of youth, and with no thought of their surviving beyond the natural life of ephemeral magazine pieces of humour. After a long and very crowded life, of which literature has occupied the smallest part, it is difficult for me to live back into the circumstances and conditions under which they were written, or to mark, except to a very limited extent, how far to Aytoun, and how far to myself, separately, the contents of the volume are to be assigned. I found this difficult when I wrote Aytoun's Life in 1867, and it is necessarily a matter of greater difficulty now in 1903. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

How long is The Bon Gaultier Ballads?

The Bon Gaultier Ballads by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun is 114 pages long, and a total of 28,956 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 35% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bon Gaultier Ballads Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 38 minutes to read The Bon Gaultier Ballads aloud.

What Reading Level is The Bon Gaultier Ballads?

The Bon Gaultier Ballads 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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