Moby Dick
Herman Melville ยท 1851
How long does it take to read Moby Dick?
About 9 hours
452 pages at 50 pages an hour. 19 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession -- the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing." Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards "the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale."
How long does it take to read Moby Dick?
Moby Dick is 452 pages, so it takes about 9 hours to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 13 hours; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 6 hours 27 minutes.
How many days to read Moby Dick at 20 minutes a day?
About 28 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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