It takes the average reader 5 hours and 15 minutes to read The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin is 307 pages long, and a total of 78,899 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 11 minutes to read The Foul and the Fragrant aloud.
The Foul and the Fragrant is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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