It takes the average reader 9 hours and 56 minutes to read The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel -- the first to be published in Latin America -- after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death -- and a...
The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi is 592 pages long, and a total of 149,184 words.
This makes it 200% the length of the average book. It also has 182% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 35 minutes to read The Mangy Parrot aloud.
The Mangy Parrot is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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