Fathers and Sons

At a glance

Author

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev1818–1883

Genre

Historical fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

Readers' rating

3.8 out of 5from 165 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 5 h 19 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 35 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

79,799

Dialogue

46%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

15.1 words

Vocabulary

456 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
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

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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