How Long to Read What Is What Was

How Long Does it Take to Read What Is What Was?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 28 minutes to read What Is What Was by Richard Stern

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

Description

What Is What Was, Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher," appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. In the book's seven sections are analyses of the Wimbledon tennis tournament as an Anglification machine, of Silicon Valley at its shaky peak,...

How long is What Is What Was?

What Is What Was by Richard Stern is 318 pages long, and a total of 82,044 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What Is What Was Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 28 minutes to read What Is What Was aloud.

What Reading Level is What Is What Was?

What Is What Was 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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