How long does it take to read The Song of Hiawatha?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jeff Ulmer, Alex A. Blum
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jeff Ulmer, Alex A. Blum takes about 3 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1855. 217 pages, about 59,675 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 154 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
Subjects: American poetry, American poetry ., Children's poetry, American, Children's stories, English, Fiction, Folklore
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