It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens among a group of intellectuals summering in Connecticut. The story, however, is less concerned with the rights and wrongs of left and right than with an absence of integrity at the very heart of the debate. Certainly the hero, John Laskell, staging a slow recovery from the death of his lover and a near-fatal...
The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read The Middle of the Journey aloud.
The Middle of the Journey is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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