How long does it take to read The Heart of a Dog?
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov takes about 2 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 24 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1968. 131 pages, about 36,025 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 |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 69 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
Subjects: Fiction, Animal experimentation, History, Dogs, Fiction, humorous, Slavic philology
