It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America by Walt Whitman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel. Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet and social reformer Horace Traubel. After each visit, Traubel meticulously recorded their conversation, transcribing with such sensitivity that Whitman’s friend John Burroughs remarked that he felt he could almost hear the poet breathing. In Walt Whitman Speaks, acclaimed author Brenda...
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America by Walt Whitman is 221 pages long, and a total of 55,471 words.
This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America aloud.
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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