Reading Level
What is the reading level of Master and Commander ?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Master and Commander is 7th and 8th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
Master and Commander
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 11 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
Reading Time
10 hrs 24 mins
How long to read Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)?
The estimated word count of Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) is 155,775 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 10 hrs 24 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 17 hrs 19 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 47 mins.
| Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) - 155,775 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 17 hrs 19 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 10 hrs 24 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 5 hrs 47 mins |
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More about Master and Commander
155,775 words
Word Count
for Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
496 pages
Pages
16 hours and 45 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
This special hardback edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of first publication with a brand-new foreword by O Brian s stepson and biographer, Nikolai Tolstoy, and artist s note by Geoff Hunt, and includes the complete text of the previously unavailable Men-of-War, O Brian s fascinating guide to the world of Aubrey/Maturin.Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O Brian s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O Brian s portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly.This brilliant historical novel marked the début of a writer who has grown into one of the most remarkable literary novelists now writing, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell s A Dance to the Music of Time . Read more