How Long to Read An Imperative Duty

How Long Does it Take to Read An Imperative Duty?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 39 minutes to read An Imperative Duty by W.D. Howells

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An Imperative Duty tells the story of Rhoda Aldgate, a young woman on the verge of marriage who has been raised by her aunt to assume that she is white, but who is in fact the descendant of an African-American grandmother. The novel traces the struggles of Rhoda, her family, and her suitor to come to terms with the implications of Rhoda’s heritage. Howells employs this stock situation to explore the newly urgent questions of identity, morality, and social policy raised by “miscegenation” in the post-Reconstruction United States. The novel imagines interracial marriage sympathetically at a time when racist sentiment was on the rise, and does this in one of Howells’s most aesthetically economical performances in the short novel form. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include material on the “tragic mulatta” in literature, interracial marriage, the “science” of race in the nineteenth century, and Howells’s literary realism.

How long is An Imperative Duty?

An Imperative Duty by W.D. Howells is 215 pages long, and a total of 54,825 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An Imperative Duty Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 59 minutes to read An Imperative Duty aloud.

What Reading Level is An Imperative Duty?

An Imperative Duty is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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