How Long to Read Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10)

How Long Does it Take to Read Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10)?

It takes the average reader 22 hours and 29 minutes to read Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Written in a richly suggestive style, Hawthorne’s five world-famous novels are permeated by his own history as well as America’s In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes to his ancestor’s involvement in the Salem witch trials, as he follows the fortunes of two rival families, the Maules and the Pyncheons. The novel moves across 150 years of American history, from an ancestral crime condoned by Puritan theocracy to reconciliation and a new beginning in the bustling Jacksonian era. Considered Hawthorne’s greatest work, The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. The transgression of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the innate lawlessness of their bastard child Pearl, and the torturous jealousy of the husband Roger Chillingworth eventually erupt through the stern reserve of Puritan Boston. The Scarlet Letter engages the moral and romantic imagination of readers who ponder the question of sexual freedom and its place in the social world. Fanshawe is an engrossing apprentice work that Hawthorne published anonymously and later sought to suppress. Written during his undergraduate years at Bowdoin College, it is a tragic romance of an ascetic scholar’s love for a merchant’s daughter. The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the perils, which Hawthorne knew first-hand, of living in a utopian community. The utilitarian reformer Hollingsworth, the reticent narrator Miles Coverdale, the unearthly Priscilla, and the sensuous Zenobia (purportedly modeled on Margaret Fuller) act out a drama of love and rejection, idealism and chicanery, millennial hope and suicidal despair on an experimental commune in rural Massachusetts. The Marble Faun, Hawthorne’s last finished novel, uses Italian landscapes where sunlight gives way to mythological shadings as a background for mysteries of identity and murder. Its two young Americans, Kenyon and Hilda, become caught up in the disastrous passion of Donatello, an ingenuous nobleman, for the beautiful, mysterious Miriam, a woman trying to escape her past.

How long is Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10)?

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10) by Nathaniel Hawthorne is 1,308 pages long, and a total of 337,464 words.

This makes it 441% the length of the average book. It also has 412% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 30 hours and 44 minutes to read Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10) aloud.

What Reading Level is Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10)?

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10) 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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