How long does it take to read Crime and Punishment?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 9 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1866. 520 pages, about 143,000 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,180 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, serialized in a Russian journal in 1866, centers on Rodion Raskolnikov, a young man in Saint Petersburg who has left his law studies and sinks into destitution. He fixes on a plan to kill a ruthless old pawnbroker and take her hoard, persuading himself that exceptional people may break moral limits for a higher purpose. Once he acts on this theory, it stops comforting him. Confusion, suspicion and revulsion overwhelm him, and he must face the inner and outer consequences of his deed.
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Subjects: Novela psicológica, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Murder, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
