How long does it take to read The Brothers Karamazov?
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 15 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 3 minutes
A long haul
First published 1880. 821 pages, about 225,775 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 405 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy’s bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky’s own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism, Russian, Classics, Literary, Russian Novel, Crime and criminals
