How Long to Read The Mystery of Iniquity

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mystery of Iniquity?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read The Mystery of Iniquity by William H. Shurr

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

Description

This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life and reading during those years and of the intellectual and artistic ambience of the later nineteenth century. With the exception of Billy Budd, almost all of the writing Melville produced between 1857 and 1891 is poetry. Until now little attention has been given to the poetry and it has been customary to view Melville's final masterpiece, Billy Budd, against the background of the earlier fiction—almost as if the writing of the intervening thirty-four years had not existed. William H. Shurr, who has studied the poems with close attention to the Melville manuscripts in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, contends that Melville's poetry merits more attention and appreciation than has hitherto been accorded it. Concerned principally with the maturation of Melville's darker themes, he has been the first to study the carefully designed sequences in which Melville published his poems. He has also discovered in the poems thematic patterns—among them Melville's heterodox Christology and his concept of a particular kind of individualism found in what he calls the "transcendent act"—that shed new light on the complexities of Billy Budd.

How long is The Mystery of Iniquity?

The Mystery of Iniquity by William H. Shurr is 392 pages long, and a total of 98,784 words.

This makes it 132% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mystery of Iniquity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read The Mystery of Iniquity aloud.

What Reading Level is The Mystery of Iniquity?

The Mystery of Iniquity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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