How long does it take to read We?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1924. 224 pages, about 61,600 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 210 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set centuries in the future, We takes place in the One State, a city-nation of glass walls where a single ruler, the Benefactor, governs and every hour follows a strict timetable. Citizens are known only by numbers and march in uniform, while logic and mathematics justify all conduct. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, is building the Integral, a ship meant to carry the State's reach to other planets. He starts a journal for the voyage, and the novel is that record. Under constant watch by the secret police, he begins to meet people who unsettle his orderly existence.
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Subjects: Untranslated Fiction - General, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, dystopian
