Fyodor Dostoevsky

How many words is Crime and Punishment?

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky has 211,591 words.

211,591words

Pages
752paperback, Penguin Classics, 2014
Reading time
14 h 6 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
22 h 45 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1866

Compared with other books

Longer than 83% 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
203,678
Chapters
40about 5,092 words each
Dialogue
55%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
12.7 words
Vocabulary
405 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 203,329 to 211,591 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Crime and Punishment?

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky has 211,591 words.

How many pages is Crime and Punishment?

752 pages in the paperback, Penguin Classics, 2014 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Crime and Punishment?

About 14 h 6 min at 250 words a minute, or 22 h 45 min as an audiobook.

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