How long does it take to read How the Steel Was Tempered?
Nikolai Ostrovsky
How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky takes about 7 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 408 pages, about 112,200 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 96 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book describes the life of an Ukrainian communist named Pavel Korchagin. The main focus is on how he overcomes the hardships of the revolution and personal difficulties that happen later. As well as on how a communist should live and behave. The plot has some similarities with the actual life of the author.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Russian Propaganda, Civilization, Russian fiction, Tranlations into Chinese
