How Long to Read How The Steel Was Tempered - 2

How Long Does it Take to Read How The Steel Was Tempered - 2?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read How The Steel Was Tempered - 2 by Nikolai Ostrovsky

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How the Steel Was Tempered is Nikolai Ostrovsky's epic semi-autobiographical novel, the only book he ever completed before his life was cut tragically short by illness at the age of 32 in 1936. Ostrovsky was a teenage soldier in the Red Army during the Civil War, before continuing his work in the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) and frequently appeared in Soviet magazines and on radio. Through its hero, Pavel Korchagin who begins the story as a boy slaving in the kitchens of a railway station restaurant in wartorn Tsarist Ukraine, the book follows not just Korchagin's developing life but also the development of socialism from the ashes of the First World War, through the triumph of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution to the launch of the Soviet Union's planned economy at the end of the 1920s. In work and war Korchagin's view of life is described by Ostrovsky's brilliant and famous words: "Our dearest possession is life. It is given to us but once. And we must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live, that dying we might say: all my life all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Humankind."

How long is How The Steel Was Tempered - 2?

How The Steel Was Tempered - 2 by Nikolai Ostrovsky is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How The Steel Was Tempered - 2 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read How The Steel Was Tempered - 2 aloud.

What Reading Level is How The Steel Was Tempered - 2?

How The Steel Was Tempered - 2 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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