It takes the average reader 2 hours and 7 minutes to read Thomas Hardy by Peter Widdowson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Thomas Hardy still seems to speak to us, in fiction and in poetry, as 'our contemporary'. This second edition of Peter Widdowson's study identifies the elements in Hardy's work which enable him to be read thus: the focus on unstable class and sexual relationships in a society undergoing rapid change; the highly-charged representations of women at the heart of this process; the self-reflexive artifice of the writing itself as an aspect of Hardy's 'satiric' view of a 'new Dark Age'. Professor Widdowson shows where this radical and destabilizing Hardy is to be located in the texts, while also...
Thomas Hardy by Peter Widdowson is 125 pages long, and a total of 31,875 words.
This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 39% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 54 minutes to read Thomas Hardy aloud.
Thomas Hardy is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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