Leo Tolstoy

How many words is Anna Karenina?

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy has 349,736 words.

349,736words

Pages
864paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003
Reading time
23 h 19 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
37 h 36 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1878

Compared with other books

Longer than 93% of the other 366 books here.

Counted from the text

Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.

Words in the text
350,547
Chapters
239about 1,467 words each
Dialogue
30%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
16.2 words
Vocabulary
404 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

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Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 349,736 to 350,515 words.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Questions

How many words is Anna Karenina?

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy has 349,736 words.

How many pages is Anna Karenina?

864 pages in the paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Anna Karenina?

About 23 h 19 min at 250 words a minute, or 37 h 36 min as an audiobook.

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