How Long to Read Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie

How Long Does it Take to Read Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 15 minutes to read Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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Description

Hamilton Wright Mabie (December 13, 1846 - December 31, 1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. *Biography* He was born at Cold Spring, N. Y. in 1846. Mabie was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a wealthy Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose ancestors were Scots-Dutch. They were early immigrants to New Amsterdam, New Netherland about 1647. Due to business opportunities with the opening of the Erie Canal his family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was approaching school age. At the young age of 16 he passed his college entrance examination, but waited a year before he attended Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869). While at Williams, Mabie was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and would serve as the first president of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (formally known as the National Interfraternity Conference He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, and from Western Reserve and Washington and Lee universities. Although he passed his bar exams in 1869 he hated both the study and practice of law. In 1876 he married Jeanette Trivett. In the summer of 1879 he was hired to work at the weekly magazine, Christian Union (renamed The Outlook in 1893), an association that lasted until his death. In 1884, Mabie was promoted to associate editor of the Christian Union and then elected to the Author's Club, whose members included such men of established reputation as George Cary Eggleston, Richard Watson Gilder, Brander Matthews, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. In 1890, a small collection of Mabie's essays which reflected upon life, literature and nature were published as a volume entitled My Study Fire." Many of Mabie's books are available at Project Gutenberg.Mabie was a resident of Summit, New Jersey.

How long is Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie?

Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie by Hamilton Wright Mabie is 74 pages long, and a total of 18,796 words.

This makes it 25% the length of the average book. It also has 23% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 42 minutes to read Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie aloud.

What Reading Level is Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie?

Works and Days. By: Hamilton Wright Mabie is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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