The Song of Hiawatha (Paperback)

Read The Song of Hiawatha the way it was made to be heard: aloud, and all the way through. This edition gives you Longfellow's whole poem, from the opening question "Should you ask me, whence these stories?" to Hiawatha's departure into the sunset, with a short plain-English note before every canto so you always know where you are in the story. The lines are short, unrhymed and full of repetition, which makes them slow to skim and easy to read aloud, a canto at a sitting.

It is something a screen cannot give: a real book you hold, write in, and hand on. A bookplate at the front has room for who it belongs to, who gave it, the occasion and the year.

Who it is for

Anyone who knows "By the shores of Gitche Gumee" and has never read the rest. Grandparents reading to grandchildren, families who share a book in the evening, and readers who like a long story poem with a clear guide through it.

What is inside

• The Introduction and all 22 numbered cantos, from I. The Peace-Pipe to XXII. Hiawatha's Departure, then Longfellow's own note on his sources
• A plain-English note opening each canto, saying what happens in it: Mudjekeewis and the Great Bear, Hiawatha fishing for the sturgeon Mishe-Nahma, his wooing of Minnehaha, the hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis, the Famine
• An About This Book page on Longfellow and where he drew the stories from
• The verse set in 16.5-point Garamond, up to 32 lines to a page
• Hummingbird and flower corners inside a double-ruled frame
• A ruled Notes page at the back

Details

• 240 pages
• 8.5 x 11 in (US Letter)
• Paperback, perfect bound
• 60# cream, uncoated paper
• Premium black and white interior
• Published under our Sovereign Publishing imprint

Every copy is printed to order. Paperbacks take approximately 3 weeks to arrive; that is an estimate and can run longer for remote destinations or in November and December. Shipping is free on every order, within Australia and internationally, with no minimum.

Also available as a hardcover.