The Known World

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
8 hrs 52 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of The Known World?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Known World is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
The Known World

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 7
SMOG Index Grade 8
Coleman Liau Index Grade 7
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 6

Reading Time

8 hrs 52 mins

How long to read The Known World?

The estimated word count of The Known World is 132,990 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 8 hrs 52 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 14 hrs 47 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 56 mins.

The Known World - 132,990 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 14 hrs 47 mins
Average 250 words/min 8 hrs 52 mins
Fast 450 words/min 4 hrs 56 mins
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Authors
Edward P. Jones

More about The Known World

132,990 words

Word Count

for The Known World

14 hours and 18 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

From National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his own plantation―as well his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who had once found love under the weight of slavery begin to betray one another. Beyond the Townsend household, the known world also unravels: low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave “speculators” sell free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years. An ambitious, courageous, luminously written masterwork, The Known World seamlessly weaves the lives of the freed and the enslaved―and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery. The Known World not only marks the return of an extraordinarily gifted writer, it heralds the publication of a remarkable contribution to the canon of American classic literature.