How Long to Read Smith

How Long Does it Take to Read Smith?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Smith by Ken Everett

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

Description

Smith is a complex person. His family tries to provide him an education in farming. In an effort to take charge of his own life. He decides to study Literature. He then marries a girl he hardly knows. He succeeds in his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his daughter, but it becomes a struggle. As he ages, will he look back on his life and feel satisfied with the road he had taken. Less John Smith was born into a poor farming family in Missouri. Sent to a university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces the life of a scholar. Over the years, Smith experiences a series of disappointments: marrying a "real" family alienates him from his parents; his career is hampered; his wife and daughter coldly turn their backs on him; A transformative new love experience ends under threat of scandal. Driven deeper and deeper, Smith rediscovers the stoic stillness of his ancestors and confronts an underlying loneliness. John Smith emerges not only as an archetypal American, but also as an unlikely existential hero, The central theme of the story is surely that of love, of love's many forms and of all the forces that oppose it. "It [love] was neither a passion of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that encompassed them both as if they were just the matter of love, its specific substance."

How long is Smith?

Smith by Ken Everett is 286 pages long, and a total of 73,216 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Smith Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Smith aloud.

What Reading Level is Smith?

Smith 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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