How long does it take to read The Possessed?
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 12 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1871. 704 pages, about 193,600 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 298 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Also known as Demons or The Devils, this is Dostoyevsky’s most political novel. Though critical of the left-wing revolutionaries, split as they often were into disparate factions and cells the author also tacitly rebukes the conservative elite for failing to come to terms with the high levels of disaffection in the country, a stance that would ultimately lead to their downfall.
Subjects: Fiction, Russian fiction, Politics in fiction, Nihilism, Social life and customs, Terrorists
