It takes the average reader 9 hours and 30 minutes to read Shark Alley by Stephen Carver
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
WHO SAYS HISTORY IS BORING? Jack Vincent used to be famous, part of a rising generation of literary authors that included Dickens, Ainsworth and Thackeray. Now he's a nobody, scratching a living as a freelance journalist writing for a penny a line. Worse, the only job he can get is on a troopship bound for the frontier wars of colonial Africa. Outed as a friend of Dickens at the captain's table, Jack recounts the events that have brought him to this fallen state. It is a journey that begins in the Marshalsea debtor's prison and ends in the shark infested waters of the Western Cape and his berth on the HMS Birkenhead, the Victorian Titanic. Lost for over a century, Jack Vincent's memoirs offer a history of the English novel that they don't teach you in school, from his apprenticeship with the original Bill and Nancy to the boudoirs and brothels of Victorian London, while all the time the ship draws ever closer to Shark Alley.
Shark Alley by Stephen Carver is 570 pages long, and a total of 142,500 words.
This makes it 192% the length of the average book. It also has 174% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 58 minutes to read Shark Alley aloud.
Shark Alley is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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