How Long to Read Ruin Nation

How Long Does it Take to Read Ruin Nation?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 34 minutes to read Ruin Nation by Megan Kate Nelson

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

Description

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change. Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they confronted the...

How long is Ruin Nation?

Ruin Nation by Megan Kate Nelson is 332 pages long, and a total of 83,664 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ruin Nation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 37 minutes to read Ruin Nation aloud.

What Reading Level is Ruin Nation?

Ruin Nation 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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