How long does it take to read Ahab's Wife?
Or, the Star-Gazer
Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund takes about 12 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 688 pages, about 189,200 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
E-Book extras: ONE: An Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund: "The Ship of My Book"; TWO: Author's Note: "The Surprise and Pleasure of It"; THREE: Reading Group Guide: Discussion Points.The famous international bestseller is now a special-features-packed e-book. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe -- an epic-scale, enthralling, and deliciously readable saga, spanning the full, rich, eventful, and dramatic life of one Una Spenser, for whom "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." Illustrated throughout by world-renowned artist Christopher Wormell.
Subjects: Nantucket island (mass.), fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Captain Ahab (Fictitious character), Ship captains' spouses
