It takes the average reader 3 hours and 59 minutes to read Hearts of Darkness by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From Edgar Allan Poe’s “dark forebodings” to Kate Chopin’s lifelong struggle with sorrow and loss, depression has shadowed southern letters. This beautifully realized study explores the defining role of melancholy in southern literature from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth, when it evolved into modernist alienation. While creativity and depression have been linked throughout Western history, Bertram Wyatt-Brown argues that nineteenth-century southern culture was hospitable to a distinctive melancholy that impelled literary production. Deeply marked by high death rates,...
Hearts of Darkness by Bertram Wyatt-Brown is 235 pages long, and a total of 59,925 words.
This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Hearts of Darkness aloud.
Hearts of Darkness 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.
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