It takes the average reader 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Mark Twain's America by Bernard Augustine De Voto
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Beginning in 1835, the birth year of Samuel Clemens, and extending through the Gilded Age, Mark Twain’s America depicts the vigorous social and historical forces that produced the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Bernard DeVoto catches a people moving west: Twain’s own family drifting down the Ohio, emigrants of every stripe, the famous and the obscure. Answering genteel critics such as Van Wyck Brooks, who blamed the American frontier for stifling Twain’s genius, DeVoto shows that, in fact, Twain’s early days in Nevada and California made a writer of him. Mark Twain’s America,...
Mark Twain's America by Bernard Augustine De Voto is 351 pages long, and a total of 88,101 words.
This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 1 minute to read Mark Twain's America aloud.
Mark Twain's America is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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