It takes the average reader 8 hours and 5 minutes to read Horatio Alger Jr. by Horatio Alger Jr.
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Horatio Alger Jr. (1832 - 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues...
Horatio Alger Jr. by Horatio Alger Jr. is 482 pages long, and a total of 121,464 words.
This makes it 163% the length of the average book. It also has 148% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 3 minutes to read Horatio Alger Jr. aloud.
Horatio Alger Jr. is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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