It takes the average reader 9 hours and 12 minutes to read Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell...
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is 544 pages long, and a total of 138,176 words.
This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 169% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 35 minutes to read Cancer Ward aloud.
Cancer Ward is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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