It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnutt
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899) is a collection of short stories by African American writer, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Originally published in a July 1888 edition of The Atlantic—in which, in 1887, Chesnutt became the first African American to have a story published in its pages—“The Wife of His Youth” has become the author’s most frequently anthologized story. The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line contains nine stories and three essays by Charles Chesnutt, a pioneer of African American literature. The title story of...
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnutt is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line aloud.
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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