Reading Level
What is the reading level of Walden?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Walden is 7th and 8th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Walden
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 10 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
8 hrs 24 mins
How long to read Walden?
The estimated word count of Walden is 125,860 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 8 hrs 24 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 14 hrs. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 40 mins.
| Walden - 125,860 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 14 hrs |
| Average | 250 words/min | 8 hrs 24 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 4 hrs 40 mins |
- Authors
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Henry David Thoreau
More about Walden
125,860 words
Word Count
for Walden
112 pages
Pages
13 hours and 32 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Walden Pond, owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and… learn what it had to teach.”Walden is landmark book on self-reliance and simple living.Table of ContentsEconomy 3Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 29Reading 35Sounds 39Solitude 45Visitors 48The Bean-Field 53The Village 57The Ponds 59Baker Farm 68Higher Laws 71Brute Neighbors 76House-Warming 80Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors 86Winter Animals 91The Pond in Winter 95Spring 100Conclusion 107