It takes the average reader 4 hours and 49 minutes to read Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted...
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd is 279 pages long, and a total of 72,261 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Alfred Hitchcock aloud.
Alfred Hitchcock is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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