How Long to Read The Intellectuals and the Masses

How Long Does it Take to Read The Intellectuals and the Masses?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey

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

Description

Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic...

How long is The Intellectuals and the Masses?

The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Intellectuals and the Masses Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read The Intellectuals and the Masses aloud.

What Reading Level is The Intellectuals and the Masses?

The Intellectuals and the Masses 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.

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