It takes the average reader 11 hours and 55 minutes to read The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low...
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is 704 pages long, and a total of 178,816 words.
This makes it 238% the length of the average book. It also has 219% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 17 minutes to read The Bonfire of the Vanities aloud.
The Bonfire of the Vanities 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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