It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel by Charles J. Shields
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An “engrossing” biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times–bestselling author (The New Yorker). When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish, eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers and...
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel by Charles J. Shields is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel aloud.
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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