It takes the average reader 10 hours and 27 minutes to read John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Simon Van Booy, nationally best-selling author of Father’s Day and The Illusion of Separateness A compelling historical novel of a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth in a small provincial town during the Industrial Revolution, now available in a Legacy Edition from Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Like Charles Dickens’s beloved David Copperfield, John Halifax is an orphan, determined to make his success through honest hard work. He becomes an apprentice to Abel Flecher, a tanner and a Quaker, and is soon befriended by Abel’s invalid son, Phineas, who chronicles John’s success in business and love, rising from the humblest of origins to the pinnacle of wealth made possible by England’s Industrial Revolution. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik explores the sweeping transformation wrought by this revolutionary technological age, including the rise of the middle class and its impact on the social, economic, and political makeup of the nation as it moved from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. This Legacy Edition features a lush design and French flaps.
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik is 608 pages long, and a total of 156,864 words.
This makes it 205% the length of the average book. It also has 192% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 17 minutes to read John Halifax, Gentleman aloud.
John Halifax, Gentleman is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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