How Long to Read Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past

How Long Does it Take to Read Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 19 minutes to read Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past by Dorothea W. McAlvin

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

Description

Martin came of age in the last decade of the nineteenth century. He lived past the mid-mark of the twentieth, an unmarried man who left no children to remember him and only a sketchy documentary trail as evidence that he'd ever lived at all. Here Martin is found in letters he received: farmer, friend, brother, would-be sweetheart, traveler, would-be Christian, sometime book reader and sometime tennis player, a letter writer himself, from whom not a single letter survives. Here the young women who wrote to him are also found-Anna J., Anna, Mag, and the irrepressible "Sister." Any one of them could have turned his life-and hers-in a different direction from the direction their lives did take. Here are the places where they lived: farms way out in the country; villages providing services and goods to those farms; small towns growing around railway depots; a side-look at a state capital where a race riot rages; colleges built in towns that had not even an elementary school before the colleges opened; county fairs and singing conventions; one-room country schools and one-room lofty sanctuaries where God was worshipped and souls were nourished. Martin's was a smaller world than ours, and more slowly paced, but it is possible to capture some of its bounds and some of its rhythms. That is what the writer attempts here.

How long is Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past?

Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past by Dorothea W. McAlvin is 136 pages long, and a total of 34,816 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past aloud.

What Reading Level is Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past?

Uncle Martin's Sister: A Memoir of Friendships Past is suitable for students ages 10 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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