How long does it take to read The Deerslayer?
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper takes about 9 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Leatherstocking Tales
Next: The Last of the Mohicans
About 9 hours 33 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1841. 521 pages, about 143,275 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 504 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, but acts as a prequel to the other novels. It begins with the rapid civilizing of New York, in which surrounds the following books take place. It introduces the hero of the Tales, Natty Bumppo, and his philosophy that every living thing should follow its own nature. He is contrasted to other, less conscientious, frontiersmen.
Subjects: United States in fiction, Male friendship, Hunters, Scouts and scouting in fiction, Fiction, Hunters in fiction
