It takes the average reader 16 hours and 39 minutes to read The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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New York Times Critics’ Best of the Year A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, plays, and stories rivaled contemporaries like Chekhov, Flaubert, and Maupassant, but, shockingly, he was barely translated into English...
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is 992 pages long, and a total of 249,984 words.
This makes it 335% the length of the average book. It also has 306% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 22 hours and 46 minutes to read The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis aloud.
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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