It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
“Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him,...
The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Death of Woman Wang aloud.
The Death of Woman Wang is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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