It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Taking the Hard Road by Mary Jo Maynes
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Taking the Hard Road is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism. According to Mary Jo Maynes, the aspects of private life revealed in these accounts played an important role in historical development by actively shaping the authors' social, political, and class identities. The stories told in these memoirs...
Taking the Hard Road by Mary Jo Maynes is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Taking the Hard Road aloud.
Taking the Hard Road is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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