How long does it take to read White Nights?
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 2 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 3 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2016. 112 pages, about 30,800 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 127 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A nameless young man in Saint Petersburg lives alone in a small apartment, with only his elderly maid for company, and spends his days dreaming of someone to talk to. One evening he comes to the aid of a weeping young woman named Nastenka, and the two agree to meet again on the following nights. Over those meetings they share their loneliness, and he describes his imagined life while she recounts her sheltered upbringing with a strict, blind grandmother and her bond with a young lodger who once promised to return for her. The story is told in the first person.
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