How Long to Read The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition

How Long Does it Take to Read The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition by Henry Adams

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

Description

"Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he," the narrator says of the birth of Henry Brooks Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 16, 1838. Through a series of impressions, he introduces the reader to Henry's boyhood world. Winters in Boston are filled with restraint, rules, confinement, school, and a sense of order that is thrillingly interrupted by wild snowball fights. Summers at his paternal grandparents' home in nearby Quincy bring freedom, delight, hope, and a close relationship with Grandfather John Quincy Adams, formerly the sixth President of the United States. Henry is a child of privilege; that, as much as anything, shapes the outer direction of his life. But his world is rapidly changing, a theme that will affect Henry's education throughout the book. Social change comes first. A trip to Maryland, Virginia and Washington D. C., with his father in 1850, introduces Henry to life in the near South, its appealing informality contrasting with the horrors of slavery, which the Adams family is devoted to eradicating even though it will mean Civil War. The style of the book affects the reader's understanding. The narrator is Henry in his late sixties; he speaks in the third person, treating the younger Henry objectively except for occasional insights into the boy's attitudes. The reader rarely sees Henry's emotions. Adams speaks of the key figure as a manikin and his education as the various costumes draped across it. The reader soon learns that Adams is using the term "education" in an unusual, broad sense. He has little use for formal schooling, including Harvard College where Henry, as told in the book, is an average student but a good writer and speaker, graduating in 1858 as the Class Orator. During a two-year "Grand Tour" of Europe, Henry makes a lame effort at studying law but finds that his German is inadequate and ends up devoting a term to learning the language in a Berlin prep school. He returns to work as a private secretary to his father, a Congressman, in Washington during the winter of 1860-1861. Having published some travel letters in the Boston Daily Courier while in Europe, Henry becomes the part-time Washington correspondent for the Boston Daily Advertiser during the winter of political turmoil leading up to the secession of many of the slave states.

How long is The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition?

The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition by Henry Adams is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition aloud.

What Reading Level is The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition?

The Education of Henry Adams Annotated And Illustrated Book With Teacher Edition 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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