# The Trail of the Hawk

The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis has 123,399 words.

## At a glance

1915 novel by Sinclair Lewis.

- **Author:** [Sinclair Lewis](https://musael.com/books/authors/sinclair-lewis.md) (1885–1951)
- **First published:** 1915
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 123,399
- **Reading time:** 8 h 14 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 13 h 16 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 17 min | 21 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 14 min | 17 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 51 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

The Trail of the Hawk is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26610

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 123,399
- Chapters: 45
- Dialogue: 32% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26610 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17038220
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trail_of_the_Hawk
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL51137W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26610

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-trail-of-the-hawk