How long does it take to read Native Son?
Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated
Native Son by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated takes about 7 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1940. 399 pages, about 109,725 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 75 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
Subjects: African American men, African americans, Bildungsromans, Blacks, Communism, Crime
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