It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton answers in this classic...
The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Great Cat Massacre aloud.
The Great Cat Massacre is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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