It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in – horrors! – water. By the early 1900s, an extraordinary idea took hold in North America – that frequent bathing, perhaps even a daily bath, was advisable. Not since the Roman Empire had people been so clean, and standards...
The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg is 358 pages long, and a total of 92,364 words.
This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 24 minutes to read The Dirt on Clean aloud.
The Dirt on Clean is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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