It takes the average reader 9 hours and 40 minutes to read Failure and Success in America by Martha Banta
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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Melville, Henry Adams, William and Henry James, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Norman Mailer. She draws on the work of philosophers, psychologists, and historians as well. Rather than discussing failure and success as merely economic or...
Failure and Success in America by Martha Banta is 580 pages long, and a total of 145,000 words.
This makes it 196% the length of the average book. It also has 177% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 12 minutes to read Failure and Success in America aloud.
Failure and Success in America is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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