Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
77916
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
336
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
Told through a variety of shifting perspectives -- wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son -- this story follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century.