It takes the average reader 6 hours and 45 minutes to read An Almanac for Moderns by Donald Culross Peattie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to “appeal to the ordinary lover of nature . . . but the turn of Peattie’s mind is poetic and speculative.” The New York Times calls this book “a fine and subtle perception . . . rising at times to an intense lyric beauty . . . a book which the reader will deeply treasure, and to which he will repeatedly return.”
An Almanac for Moderns by Donald Culross Peattie is 402 pages long, and a total of 101,304 words.
This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 124% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 13 minutes to read An Almanac for Moderns aloud.
An Almanac for Moderns is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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