How Long to Read The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney

How Long Does it Take to Read The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 37 minutes to read The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney by Stewart Cooke

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

Description

This volume of letters by Charles Burney, the first to be published since 1991, runs from 1794 to 10 January 1800, beginning with his recovery from a debilitating attack of rheumatism, continuing with the death of his wife in 1796, and ending with the shocking death of his daughter Susanna. Certain leitmotifs, typical of Burney's concerns, stand out throughout the volume: his trepidation over the war with France and its effect on domestic politics, his exhausting social life, his travels, and his publication of the memoirs of the poet and lyricist Metastasio. A staunch monarchist and a self-confessed 'allarmist', Burney is haunted 'day and night' by the French Revolution and the threat that Republican France poses to 'religion, morals, liberty, property, & life'. He frets frequently over those he considers to be domestic Jacobins, a word he uses forty-seven times in the course of the volume to describe anyone whose politics differ from his own conservative values. Although Burney turns sixty-eight in April 1794, in this volume he barely slows down his habitual hectic pace of teaching and publishing. In the summer of 1795, he publishes his final book, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Pietro Metastasio, despite a hectic social life that sees him hobnobbing with the elite in society and politics and a love of travel that takes him to the homes of friends in Hampshire and Cheshire and into his past on a nostalgic visit to Shrewsbury, his childhood home.

How long is The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney?

The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney by Stewart Cooke is 632 pages long, and a total of 159,264 words.

This makes it 213% the length of the average book. It also has 195% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 30 minutes to read The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney aloud.

What Reading Level is The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney?

The Letters of Dr. Charles Burney is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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