How long does it take to read Hornblower and the "Hotspur"?
Hornblower and the "Hotspur" by C. S. Forester takes about 6 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Horatio Hornblower
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About 6 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1920. 342 pages, about 94,050 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed and unhappy temperament" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. - Back cover.
Subjects: Fiction, action & adventure, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Naval History
