How long does it take to read Cancer Ward?
Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1968. 560 pages, about 154,000 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 64 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the Listener Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of Cancer Ward in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.
Subjects: Russia, Soviet Union, Soviet union, fiction, Patients, Cancer, Fiction
