How Long to Read The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 42 minutes to read The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn by Ralph Melnick

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

Description

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. Lewisohn became a notable scholar and translator of German and French literature, teaching at Wisconsin and Ohio State. Following his mother's death in 1914, he began to explore the Jewish life he had rejected, and by 1920 became a Zionist committed to fighting assimilation. Accusatory and inflammatory, his memoir Up Stream (1922) struck at the very heart of American culture and society, and caused great controversy and lasting enmity. As strong emotional influences, the women in Lewisohn's life—his mother and four wives—helped to frame his life and work. Believing himself liberated by the woman he declared his "spiritual wife" while legally married to another, he proclaimed the artist's right to freedom in The Creative Life (1924), abandoned his editorship at The Nation, and fled to Europe. Lewisohn's fictionalized account of his failed marriage, The Case of Mr. Crump (1926), once again attacked the empty morality of this world and won Sigmund Freud's praise as the greatest psychological novel of the century. A creator of one of Paris's leading salons, Lewisohn ended his leisurely writer's life in 1934 to awaken America to the growing Nazi threat. Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.

How long is The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn?

The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn by Ralph Melnick is 514 pages long, and a total of 130,556 words.

This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 160% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 53 minutes to read The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn?

The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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