How Long to Read The Hanging Tree

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hanging Tree?

It takes the average reader 11 hours to read The Hanging Tree by V. A. C. Gatrell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd.

How long is The Hanging Tree?

The Hanging Tree by V. A. C. Gatrell is 660 pages long, and a total of 165,000 words.

This makes it 223% the length of the average book. It also has 202% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hanging Tree Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 1 minute to read The Hanging Tree aloud.

What Reading Level is The Hanging Tree?

The Hanging Tree is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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