How long does it take to read Notes from the Underground?
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 2 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 26 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1864. 133 pages, about 36,575 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 837 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes — moral, religious, political and social — that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Officials and employees, Employees, Fiction, historical, Russia (federation), fiction
