It takes the average reader 5 hours to read Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Originally published in 1940, this is Cather's last novel, a retrospective portrait of a society and conditions that have vanished forever in the Old South. The stain of slavery is seen through the relationship of Sapphira Colbert to her black maid, Nancy. Sapphira presides over her Back Creek Valley property with disciplined resolution; her husband, Henry, runs the Mill and sleeps there too, their marriage a formality. By 1865 Sapphira is one of the few Virginians who still owns slaves, a policy Henry finds increasingly difficult to countenance. Sapphira's life is an arid one and, confined...
Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather is 295 pages long, and a total of 75,225 words.
This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 51 minutes to read Sapphira and the Slave Girl aloud.
Sapphira and the Slave Girl is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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