It takes the average reader and 45 minutes to read The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Master poet, storyteller and translator Ciaran Carson has great fun with this eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece, which deals with the topic of repression, sexual and otherwise. The Midnight Court has been called one of the greatest comic works of literature, and certainly the greatest comic poem ever written in Ireland. --Seán Ó TuamaThe story is an aisling--a Gaelic literary genre, in which a poet wanders and meets a beautiful fairy woman who is ultimately identified as Ireland herself, prophesying the return of her power--but this is an aisling stood on its head. As Carson explains:...
The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman is 45 pages long, and a total of 11,475 words.
This makes it 15% the length of the average book. It also has 14% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 2 minutes to read The Midnight Court aloud.
The Midnight Court is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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