It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read The Invention of Improvement by Paul Slack
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to the challenge of increasing the country's wealth and general wellbeing. Improvements in agriculture and industry, commerce and social welfare, would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself a recent coinage. It was useful as a slogan summarising all these goals, and since it had no equivalent in...
The Invention of Improvement by Paul Slack is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 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 20 minutes to read The Invention of Improvement aloud.
The Invention of Improvement is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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