How Long to Read The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga

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

Description

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide by poison. In the end, Quiroga himself downed cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from an incurable cancer. In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the violence he had experienced. His stories are infused with death, too, but they span a wide range of short fiction genres: jungle tale, Gothic horror story, morality tale, psychological study. Many of his stories are set in the steaming jungle of the Misiones district of northern Argentina, where he spent much of his life, but his tales possess a universality that elevates them far above the work of a regional writer. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.

How long is The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories?

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories?

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories 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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