How Long to Read Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 53 minutes to read Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley

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

Description

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life. Over her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller White Teeth by Zadie Smith, from classics to little-known gems. With these books and her experience of reading them...

How long is Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel?

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley is 591 pages long, and a total of 148,341 words.

This makes it 199% the length of the average book. It also has 181% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 30 minutes to read Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel?

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel 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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