How Long to Read The Death of the Gods

How Long Does it Take to Read The Death of the Gods?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read The Death of the Gods by Dmitri Mérejkowski

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

Description

Dmitri Mérejkowski is perhaps the most interesting and powerful of the younger Russian novelists, the only writer that promises to carry on the work of Tolstoi, Turgeniev, and Dostoievski. His books, which are already numerous, are animated by a single master-idea, the Pagano-Christian dualism of our human nature. What specially interests him in the vast spectacle of human affairs is the everlasting contest between the idea of a God-Man and the idea of a Man-God; that is to say, between the conception of a God incarnate for awhile (as in Christ) and the conception of Man as himself God-gradually evolving higher types of splendid and ruling character which draw after them the generations. The novelist's own doctrine seems to be that both the Pagan and the Christian elements in our nature, although distinct elements, are equally legitimate and sacred. His teaching is that the soul and the senses have an equal right to be respected; that hedonism and altruism are equals, and that the really full man, the perfect man, is he who can ally in harmonious equilibrium the cult of Dionysus and the cult of Christ. Mérejkowski conceives that European civilisation has been born of the tremendous conflict between these two main ideas. And he has embodied this conflict in a trilogy of novels,-three great historical romances. The first is entitled The Death of the Gods, and deals with the extraordinary career of the Roman Emperor. Julian the Apostate, who in the fourth century A.D. sought to revive the worship of the Olympians after Christianity had been adopted by Constantine the Great as the official religion of the Roman Empire.

How long is The Death of the Gods?

The Death of the Gods by Dmitri Mérejkowski is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Death of the Gods Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read The Death of the Gods aloud.

What Reading Level is The Death of the Gods?

The Death of the Gods is suitable for students ages 12 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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