How long does it take to read And Quiet Flows the Don?
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov takes about 25 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 25 hours 49 minutes
A long haul
First published 1964. 1,408 pages, about 387,200 words.
52 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 43 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 25 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of a continuing series of books about characters in a peasant village and their involvement in the brewing revolution and civil war. Best to read them in order. The author should have been awarded the Nobel prize decades earlier than he was.
Subjects: Early days of the Russian revolution., Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, war & military
