Eugene Oneguine

At a glance

Novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.

Author

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin1799–1837

First published

1825

Original language

Russian

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Shortunder 40,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 2 h 37 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 14 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

39,300

Dialogue

10%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

20.4 words

Vocabulary

560 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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