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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
by R.F. Kuang
688 pages2022
Fiction
About This Book
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER ‘One for Philip Pullman fans’ THE TIMES ‘This one is an automatic buy’ GLAMOUR ‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Razor-sharp’ DAILY MAIL ‘An ingenious fantasy about empire’ GUARDIAN
Reading Time Estimates
17h 31m
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180 WPM
12h 37m
average reader
250 WPM
9h 1m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 189,200 words📅 26 days at 30 min/day
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14 hours 1 min
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21 hours 1 min
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