How long does it take to read The Commodore?
The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian takes about 5 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 17 of Aubrey-Maturin series
Previous: The Wine-Dark Sea Next: The Yellow Admiral
About 5 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 293 pages, about 80,575 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Sea stories, Fiction, historical, Ship captains
