It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read Within Our Gates by J. A. Williams
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
‘Augusta could not find the words to express her frustration with the banality and pettiness of this Gilded Age. This so called progressive age of invention, where her freedom to travel was curtailed and she and her like were chaperoned intensely from dawn to dusk according to a quixotic code of honour.’ The story is indebted to Jane Austen’s Persuasion and explores love and loss in a small black community in Brooklyn, New York during the 1900s. At age nineteen, Augusta Mae Johnson fell deeply in love with a handsome young jazz pianist Paul Wentworth. However, the Southern gentleman had...
Within Our Gates by J. A. Williams is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.
This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Within Our Gates aloud.
Within Our Gates 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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