How Long to Read The Human Comedy

How Long Does it Take to Read The Human Comedy?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 54 minutes to read The Human Comedy by Honore de Balzac

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

Description

An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more—move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzac’s multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac’s many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great writer’s obsessions and art. Here are “The Duchesse de Langeais,” “A Passion in the Desert,” and “Sarrasine”; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller’s fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the “mysterious circulation of blood and desire.”

How long is The Human Comedy?

The Human Comedy by Honore de Balzac is 465 pages long, and a total of 118,575 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 145% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Human Comedy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 47 minutes to read The Human Comedy aloud.

What Reading Level is The Human Comedy?

The Human Comedy 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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