It takes the average reader 7 hours and 42 minutes to read A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A masterly work from a writer with “the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America” (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature. Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her...
A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates is 448 pages long, and a total of 115,584 words.
This makes it 151% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 31 minutes to read A Garden of Earthly Delights aloud.
A Garden of Earthly Delights is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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