Reading Level
What is the reading level of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is 6th and 7th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 4 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 7 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 6 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
6 hrs 6 mins
How long to read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions)?
The estimated word count of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions) is 91,450 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 6 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 10 hrs 10 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 24 mins.
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions) - 91,450 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 10 hrs 10 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 6 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 24 mins |
- Authors
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James Joyce
More about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
91,450 words
Word Count
for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
260 pages
Pages
9 hours and 50 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. He finally leaves for Paris to pursue his calling as an artist. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The Modern Library ranked Portrait as the third greatest English-language novel of the twentieth century.