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Charles Baudelaire

Essays by Charles Baudelaire takes about 5 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 38 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1890. 307 pages, about 84,425 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 23 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 38 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 31 minutes

The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Charles Baudelaire, the nineteenth-century French poet and writer, has also been called 'the father of modern criticism'. This stimulating volume gathers together some of his most celebrated critical writings."--Amazon.

Subjects: History and criticism, Art, Painting, French, Romanticism, Art criticism, History

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