How Long to Read These Possible Lives

How Long Does it Take to Read These Possible Lives?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy

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

Description

Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of De Quincey’s early nineteenth-century world we hear of the habits of writers: Charles Lamb “spoke of ‘Lilliputian rabbits’ when eating frog fricassse”; Henry Fuseli “ate a diet of raw meat...

How long is These Possible Lives?

These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read These Possible Lives Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read These Possible Lives aloud.

What Reading Level is These Possible Lives?

These Possible Lives is suitable for students ages 8 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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