How long does it take to read Benito Cereno?
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville takes about 2 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 29 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1926. 135 pages, about 37,125 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water...Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
Subjects: Slave trade, Fiction, Slaves, fiction, Fiction, sea stories, Enslaved persons, fiction, Children's fiction
