How long does it take to read Master and Commander?
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian takes about 7 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Aubrey-Maturin series
Next: Post Captain
About 7 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 412 pages, about 113,300 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. - Publisher.
Subjects: Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, Fiction, Historical - General, Sea Stories, Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Fiction, sea stories
