How Long to Read Roughing It

How Long Does it Take to Read Roughing It?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 16 minutes to read Roughing It by Mark Twain

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

Description

Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of...

How long is Roughing It?

Roughing It by Mark Twain is 888 pages long, and a total of 229,104 words.

This makes it 300% the length of the average book. It also has 280% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Roughing It Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 20 hours and 51 minutes to read Roughing It aloud.

What Reading Level is Roughing It?

Roughing It 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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