It takes the average reader 9 hours and 5 minutes to read The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937 by Graf Harry Kessler
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Known as the Red Count' because of his fiercely republican views, Count Harry Kessler was intensely involved in the art, politics and society of Weimar Germany. A writer of sharp perception and boundless curiosity, Harry Kessler wrote down everything as it happened. The diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people. Josephine Baker dances naked in his drawing-room, Einstein engages him in long discussions about his theories, George Grosz contacts him from underground during the political troubles. Asquith and Cocteau, Diaghilev and Gide, Lloyd George and Richard Strauss, Rodin and Bernard Shaw, Eric Gill and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Virginia Woolf and Paul Valery, are among the people he knew and observed. He took a keen interest in politics. Alongside his artistic adventures are accounts of street fighting, the Spartacus uprising, the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, government upheavals, international disputes, elections and assassinations.
The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937 by Graf Harry Kessler is 535 pages long, and a total of 136,425 words.
This makes it 181% the length of the average book. It also has 167% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 25 minutes to read The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937 aloud.
The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan 1918-1937 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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