Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.3
Points
24.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
140396
Points per Word
0.000171
Page Count
409
Points per Page
0.05868
Description
This is the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction.