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How long does it take to read The Long Winter?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder takes about 6 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 6 of Little House on the Prairie

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About 6 hours 9 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1940. 335 pages, about 92,125 words. Written for children.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 14 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 9 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 50 minutes

The page count is the median across 62 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

Subjects: Blizzards, Juvenile fiction, Families, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction

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