How Long to Read The Simple Life

How Long Does it Take to Read The Simple Life?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 34 minutes to read The Simple Life by David E. Shi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Looking across three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Scott and Helen Nearing, Jimmy Carter and Jane Addams. It finds that nothing is simple about our mercurial devotion to the ideal of plain living and high thinking. Though we may hedge a bit in practice and are now and then driven by motives no deeper than nostalgia, this work stresses that the diverse efforts to avoid anxious social striving and compulsive materialism have been essential to the nation's spiritual...

How long is The Simple Life?

The Simple Life by David E. Shi is 332 pages long, and a total of 83,664 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Simple Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 37 minutes to read The Simple Life aloud.

What Reading Level is The Simple Life?

The Simple Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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