It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living—the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our...
The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.
This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read The Dominion of the Dead aloud.
The Dominion of the Dead is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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