It takes the average reader 4 hours and 9 minutes to read A Sense of Things by Bill Brown
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In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves. Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn...
A Sense of Things by Bill Brown is 245 pages long, and a total of 62,475 words.
This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to read A Sense of Things aloud.
A Sense of Things is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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