How long does it take to read What Is to Be Done??
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
What Is to Be Done? by Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky takes about 8 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1863. 456 pages, about 125,400 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Criticism and interpretation, Russian fiction
