How long does it take to read Anna Karenina?
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy takes about 14 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1876. 771 pages, about 212,025 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,316 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
Subjects: Fiction, Adultery, Married women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Upper class women
