How long does it take to read The Diary of a Writer?
The Diary of a Writer by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 20 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 7 minutes
A long haul
First published 1878. 1,097 pages, about 301,675 words.
41 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 33 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Writer's Diary (Russian: Дневник писателя; Dnevnik pisatelya) is a collection of non-fiction and fictional writings by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Taken from pieces written for a periodical which he founded and produced, it is normally published in two volumes: the first covering those published between 1873 and 1876, the second from 1877 and 1881.
Subjects: Diaries, Collected Short Works, Authors, biography, Sources
