How long does it take to read Uncle Vanya?
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov takes about 1 hour 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1897. 82 pages, about 22,550 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 222 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Checkov's four major plays. It was first performed in 1900, the year after its publication, under direction by the celebrated Konstantin Stanislavski. The text reworks an earlier play by Checkov, The Wood Demon. Critics have attempted to follow Checkov's method and artistic development by tracking the changes he made to the earlier text. The cast of Uncle Vanya is significantly pared back and the ending left less happily resolved.
Subjects: Drama, Scripts, Russian drama, Fiction, Drama (dramatic works by one author), German
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