How Long to Read The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer

How Long Does it Take to Read The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer by James Dempsey

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

Description

The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and editor of The Dial from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the movement, introducing the ideas of literary modernism to America and giving American artists a new audience in Europe. In The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, James Dempsey looks beyond the public figure best known for publishing the work of William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore to reveal a paradoxical man fraught with indecisions and insatiable appetites, and deeply conflicted about the artistic movement to which he was benefactor and patron. Thayer suffered from schizophrenia and faded from public life upon his resignation from The Dial. Because of his mental illness and controversial life, his guardians refused to allow anything of a personal nature to appear in previous biographies. The story of Thayer's unmoored and peripatetic life, which in many ways mirrored the cosmopolitan rootlessness of modernism, has never been fully told until now.

How long is The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer?

The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer by James Dempsey is 375 pages long, and a total of 95,625 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 117% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 42 minutes to read The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer aloud.

What Reading Level is The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer?

The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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