How long does it take to read Oblomov?
Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov takes about 9 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1913. 517 pages, about 142,175 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 117 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A comedic story about a member of the landed gentry of nineteenth-century Russia whose indolence destroys his life.
Subjects: Fiction, Russia in fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, general, Russia (federation), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
