How long does it take to read The Master of Ballantrae?
a winter's tale
Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Luis Stevenson, robert l stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Luis Stevenson, robert l stevenson takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1888. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 205 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart.
Subjects: Fiction, Absence and presumption of death, History, Brothers, Inheritance and succession, Revenge
