It takes the average reader 8 hours and 52 minutes to read The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson by James Boswell
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This edition, expanded to include the text of letters unavailable at the time of the volume's first publication in 1969, records James Boswell's quest over a period of more than twenty years to amplify his knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, through a detailed correspondence with a wide network of friends, informants, and other authorities. The volume, with revised and updated annotation, shows not just Boswell’s struggles through his personal distresses to gather material for his Life of Johnson, but notes many of his revisions of his sources, changes made in...
The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson by James Boswell is 524 pages long, and a total of 133,096 words.
This makes it 177% the length of the average book. It also has 163% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 7 minutes to read The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson aloud.
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