# Eugene Oneguine

Eugene Oneguine by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin has 39,300 words.

## At a glance

Novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.

- **Author:** [Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin](https://musael.com/books/authors/aleksandr-sergeevich-pushkin.md) (1799–1837)
- **First published:** 1825
- **Original language:** Russian
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 39,300
- **Reading time:** 2 h 37 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 14 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 17 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 37 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 11 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23997
- LibriVox audiobook (4 h 26 min): https://librivox.org/eugene-oneguine-by-alexander-pushkin/

## 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

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23997 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50948
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Onegin
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL623234W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23997

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/eugene-oneguine