How long does it take to read The Misanthrope?
The Misanthrope by Molière takes about 2 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 19 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1817. 126 pages, about 34,650 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 68 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The tradition of the poet-translator is as old as English literature. Chaucer made a version of Le Roman de la Rose; Pope, of Homer; Longfellow, of Dante. Richard Wilbur, one of America's most distinguished young poets, has followed in this tradition. Moreover, in Molier̀e he has chosen a dramatist whose subtle and translucent verse has qualities in common with his own. He has translated Molier̀e's great neoclassic comedy into rhymed couplets of epigrammatic brilliance. The Misanthrope, which has always been one of Molier̀e's most popular plays, tells the story of a man whose conscience and sincerity were too rigorous for his age. It is a searching comic study of falsity, of shallowness, and-in the hero's case-of self-righteousness. This masterpiece of seventeenth-century drama, whose theme is wholly and meaningfully contemporary, has now received full justice in its finest English translation.
Subjects: Baptiste Poquelin, dit. Le Misanthrope, Molière, Jean, Fiction, Misanthrope (Molière), Aristocracy (Social class), Drama
