It takes the average reader 6 hours and 45 minutes to read The Story of Pain by Joanna Bourke
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Everyone knows what it feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and...
The Story of Pain by Joanna Bourke is 396 pages long, and a total of 101,376 words.
This makes it 134% the length of the average book. It also has 124% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 13 minutes to read The Story of Pain aloud.
The Story of Pain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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