It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
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It was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr, perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century. Hoffmann was a follower of Cervantes and Sterne, a pioneering 'magic realist', fascinated by Gothic horror, extreme mental states and supernatural events occurring within sharply (and sometimes satirically) rendered social settings. A talented composer and painter, he portrayed himself in the...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.
This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr aloud.
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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