How Long to Read Backwoods Tales

How Long Does it Take to Read Backwoods Tales?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read Backwoods Tales by William Gilmore Simms

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms’s account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants. By the mid-1840s Simms’s novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him “the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced.” The twelfth volume in the ongoing Arkansas Edition of the works of William Gilmore Simms, Backwoods Tales brings together three of the best examples of his comic writing. All were written during the last decade of Simms’s life, when he had become a master of his craft. These three tales belong in the tradition of southern backwoods humor, a genre that flourished before the Civil War and produced classic tales by such authors as George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Paddy McGann, “Sharp Snaffles,” and “Bill Bauldy” are all frame tales, told by rustic narrators in authentic dialect, with frequent pauses for libation and comment. These three pieces of writing, never before published together, stand among the best examples of American humor of the nineteenth century.

How long is Backwoods Tales?

Backwoods Tales by William Gilmore Simms is 410 pages long, and a total of 102,500 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Backwoods Tales Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read Backwoods Tales aloud.

What Reading Level is Backwoods Tales?

Backwoods Tales is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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