How Long to Read Trading Twelves

How Long Does it Take to Read Trading Twelves?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Trading Twelves by Ralph Ellison

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

Description

This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion. The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a jam session in which two jazz musicians "trade twelves"—each improvising twelve bars of music around the same musical idea-their lively dialog centers upon their respective writing, the jazz they both...

How long is Trading Twelves?

Trading Twelves by Ralph Ellison is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Trading Twelves Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Trading Twelves aloud.

What Reading Level is Trading Twelves?

Trading Twelves 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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