How Long to Read The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry

How Long Does it Take to Read The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry by Eleanor Knowles Dugan

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

Description

Madeleine de Scudry was the bestselling novelist in seventeenth-century Europe, translated into a half-dozen languages including English and Arabic. She was forced to publish under her brother's name and achieved such fame that he was elected to the Acadmie Franaise. She lived in a time of dark savagery and cynicism, yet she persisted in believing in kindness, compassion, loyalty, and joy. She sought absolute anonymity and gained only notoriety. And for what was she notorious? For profligacy and prudery, for passionate sensuality and icy frigidity, for arrogance and shyness, for vanity and modesty, for outrageous falsehoods and painful honesty. She was accused of corrupting the morals of the most licentious age since Caligula's, and then accused (by the same enemies) of being a virgin! She spoke out eloquently against the slavery of marriage and love, and she became involved in one of the most profound, impassioned, intense, enduring, and unlikely love affairs in history. She was a meek and servile woman who enraged her inferiors, an arrogant poseur who delighted princes, a forceful feminist who sulked and flirted and pretended to be stupid. Ridiculed for being dour, crabbed, and humorless, she beguiled, enchanted, enthralled. She was, in short, a paragon of paradox. And she has been utterly forgotten.

How long is The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry?

The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry by Eleanor Knowles Dugan is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry aloud.

What Reading Level is The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry?

The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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