It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read This Body the Earth by Paul Green
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
It is late-Reconstruction South where poverty and the exhausted earth strip even the strongest and most willful of their means to overcome the humiliations of the Civil War. Thousands of landless poor, many descended from Scots immigrants, crisscross the roads with their few chickens, bedding and an old stove in search of better wages from the landlords who exploit them and saddle them with debt. A whole people are on the move. From this unpromising soil rises one of Little Bethel's most ambitious sons. Born in the piney woods of North Carolina from a family of feckless sharecroppers, Alvin...
This Body the Earth by Paul Green is 422 pages long, and a total of 106,344 words.
This makes it 142% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read This Body the Earth aloud.
This Body the Earth is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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