How long does it take to read The First Circle?
The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn takes about 11 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1968. 618 pages, about 169,950 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Written from his own experiences this short novel focuses on the lives of a group of political prisoners held in a sharashka, a research & development laboratory near Moscow manned by engineers & technicians plucked from the gulags to perform work for the state.
Subjects: Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, Russian fiction, Political fiction, Prison Life in Fiction
