How long does it take to read The Oak and the Calf?
The Oak and the Calf by Alexander Solzhenitsyn takes about 11 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 3 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1975. 603 pages, about 165,825 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 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Biography, Politics and government, Russian Authors, Censorship, Intellectual life, Contemporary Soviet Union
