How Long to Read The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek

How Long Does it Take to Read The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek by W. A. Trenckmann

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

Description

The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press. This remarkable work of vintage historical fiction focuses on the life of one young man, Kuno Sartorius, who grows up and comes of age in a community of educated German immigrants during the waning months of the Civil War. Author William Trenckmann serialized the novel in his newspaper, Das Bellville Wochenblatt [The Bellville Weekly]. His novel, Die Lateiner am Possum Creek is one of the few works of fiction to treat the plight of the minority Texas Germans during the war. However, it is more than a German story, and provides vignettes of all aspects of life, and of all classes in Texas, on both the home front and the Trans-Mississippi theater. Throughout are the young men from all walks of life brought together by Confederate conscription and facing the same hardships of war. Expertly translated and annotated by James C. Kearney, this novel becomes a shadow memoir of the American Civil War. The educated German settlers of Millheim had fled their native land because of strife and revolution, choosing the bucolic life on the Texas frontier over the sophisticated university towns of Germany. Their children, though, faced uncertainties of their own as Texas seceded and joined the Confederacy and depended on all military aged men to do their part in a cause few Germans in the neighborhood cared for, and to perpetuate slavery which most abhorred. Kearney’s notes help the reader navigate the story, and reveal the “story behind the story.”

How long is The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek?

The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek by W. A. Trenckmann is 346 pages long, and a total of 88,576 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek aloud.

What Reading Level is The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek?

The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek 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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