It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here—“The Pool in the Desert,” “A Mother in India,” “An Impossible Ideal,” and “The Hesitation of Miss Anderson”—Duncan’s women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit...
The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.
This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read The Pool in the Desert aloud.
The Pool in the Desert is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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