How long does it take to read Gem of the Ocean?
Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson takes about 1 hour 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 40 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2006. 91 pages, about 25,025 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century-an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.
Subjects: Drama, African American neighborhoods, African Americans, Nineteen hundreds (Decade), African American families, Drama (dramatic works by one author)
