How Long to Read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

How Long Does it Take to Read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

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

Description

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.

How long is The Swerve: How the World Became Modern?

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern aloud.

What Reading Level is The Swerve: How the World Became Modern?

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 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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