# The Eagle's Heart

The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland has 79,960 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Hamlin Garland](https://musael.com/books/authors/hamlin-garland.md) (1860–1940)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 79,960
- **Reading time:** 5 h 20 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 36 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 40 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 20 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 27 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

The Eagle's Heart is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21255

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 79,960
- Chapters: 23
- Dialogue: 35% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21255 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1795438W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21255

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-eagles-heart