Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.8
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
101164
Points per Word
0.000188
Page Count
400
Points per Page
0.0475
Description
Set in New York in the 1870s, this is a disturbingly accurate picture of men and women caught in a society that denies humanity while desperately defending "civilisation".