How long does it take to read Mr. Midshipman Hornblower?
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester takes about 4 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Horatio Hornblower
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About 4 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1920. 258 pages, about 70,950 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 61 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's Navy, Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
Subjects: Fiction, Naval History, Sea stories, Fiction, action & adventure, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical
