How long does it take to read Life and Fate?
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman takes about 16 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 8 minutes
A long haul
First published 1980. 880 pages, about 242,000 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Russian literature at its most magnificent and intense. This novel rolls like the steppe unforgivably barren and exhausting, on and on until the reader is left exhausted by the enormity of the story and its telling.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general, Fate and fatalism, History, Dissidents
