How long does it take to read The Elephant Man?
The Elephant Man by Tim Vicary takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1991. 64 pages, about 17,600 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him, 'the elephant man.' Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film"--Pg. 4 of cover.
Subjects: High interest-low vocabulary books, Proteus syndrome, Biography, Patients, Human Abnormalities
