# Dead Souls

Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol has 141,650 words.

## At a glance

1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol.

- **Author:** [Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol](https://musael.com/books/authors/nikolai-vasilevich-gogol.md) (1809–1852)
- **First published:** 1842
- **Original language:** Russian
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 141,650
- **Reading time:** 9 h 27 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 15 h 14 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 11 h 48 min | 24 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 27 min | 19 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 52 min | 16 days |

## Read or listen

Dead Souls is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/c-j-hogarth
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1081
- LibriVox audiobook (14 h 44 min): https://librivox.org/dead-souls-by-gogol-trans-hogarth/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 141,998
- Chapters: 15
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/c-j-hogarth (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1081 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q647379
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17396611W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1081

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/dead-souls