Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23709
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
93
Points per Page
0.043011
Series
Twentieth Century Classics
Description
This is the story of a husband who yearns for a son, ignorant of his own sterility; a wife who commits adultery to fulfill her husband's wishes; the father of the child; and the outsider whose actions affect them all.