How long does it take to read Hark! A Vargrant?
Hark! A Vargrant by Kate Beaton takes about 2 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Hark! A Vagrant
Next: Step Aside, Pops
About 2 hours 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2011. 153 pages, about 42,075 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. No era or tome emerges unscathed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. She deftly points out what really happened when Brahms fell asleep listening to Liszt, that the world's first hipsters were obviously the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses from eighteenth-century France, that Susan B. Anthony is, of course, a "Samantha," and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross.
Subjects: Fiction, Pictorial Canadian wit and humor, World history, Comic books, strips, Englisch, Canadian wit and humor
