It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff by Rudolph P. Byrd
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Jean Toomer (1894–1967) earned his place in American literary history with Cane (1923), a brilliant modernist collage of fiction, poetry, and drama about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North. Although Toomer continued to write prodigiously, his work went largely unpublished as he turned away from an exploration of his African American roots he had employed so powerfully in Cane. Rudolph P. Byrd examines the central reason behind Toomer's literary decline: his enthusiasm for the theories of George Gurdjieff, a contemporary Russian psychologist, philosopher, and mystic. As Toomer's...
Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff by Rudolph P. Byrd is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff aloud.
Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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