Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
10.5
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60361
Points per Word
0.000199
Page Count
218
Points per Page
0.055046
Description
This is the story of a young man who transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Translation by Stanley Corngold.