It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker). At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to...
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.
This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Pavilion of Women aloud.
Pavilion of Women is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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