How Long to Read The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

How Long Does it Take to Read The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 46 minutes to read The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies

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

Description

A vagrant de Tocqueville gives an eloquent, dry-eyed report of his tramping adventures in the violent underworld of late 19th century America and Britain An untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by the conservative Georgians and the vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W. H. Davies surprised his contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. After a delinquent childhood Davies renounced home and apprenticeship and at twenty-two sailed to America—the first of more than a dozen Atlantic crossings, often made by cattle boat. From 1893 to 1899 he was schooled by the hard men of the road, disdaining regular work and subsisting by begging. Crossing Canada to join the “Klondyke” gold rush, Davies fell while hopping a train. His foot was crushed and his leg amputated. “All the wildness had been taken out of me,” Davies wrote, “and my adventures after this were not of my own seeking.” Praised by Osbert Sitwell for his “primitive splendour and directness,” Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose that George Bernard Shaw commended to “literary experts for its style alone.” The insurgent wanderlust that found an American voice in Jack London and Jack Kerouac is expressed here in a raucous true adventure story by the man Shaw called “the incorrigible Supertramp who wrote this amazing book.”

How long is The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp?

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies is 219 pages long, and a total of 56,721 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 9 minutes to read The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp aloud.

What Reading Level is The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp?

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 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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