It takes the average reader 8 hours and 27 minutes to read Foundation by Peter Ackroyd
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a...
Foundation by Peter Ackroyd is 496 pages long, and a total of 126,976 words.
This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 33 minutes to read Foundation aloud.
Foundation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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