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How long does it take to read Virgin Soil?

Turgenev Ivan

Virgin Soil by Turgenev Ivan takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 40 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1877. 309 pages, about 84,975 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 40 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 32 minutes

The page count is the median across 49 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"This book - a love story, a devastating and bitterly funny social satire, and , perhaps most movingly of all, a heartfelt celebration of the immense beauty of the Russian countryside - is a tragic masterpiece in which one of the world's finest novelists confronts the enduring question of the place of happiness in a political world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, History, Social conditions, Revolutionaries, Country homes

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