How Long to Read I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

How Long Does it Take to Read I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 4 minutes to read I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! by Robert Elliott Burns

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Chain Gang Fugitive, first published in 1932 as I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, is the dramatic firsthand account of Robert Burns and his struggle to live a normal life following a single disastrous choice he had made as a young man. T Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia’s barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years’ hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia’s brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

How long is I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!?

I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! by Robert Elliott Burns is 302 pages long, and a total of 76,104 words.

This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 55 minutes to read I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! aloud.

What Reading Level is I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!?

I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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