It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade--until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read The Tartar Steppe aloud.
The Tartar Steppe is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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