How long does it take to read The Master?
The Master by Colm Tóibín takes about 6 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 359 pages, about 98,725 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Tóibín captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.
Subjects: Authors, Fiction, Americans, Authorship, Meleager, of Gadara, Fiction, historical
