It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Picture of Dorian Gray aloud.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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