# Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev has 79,799 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev](https://musael.com/books/authors/ivan-sergeevich-turgenev.md) (1818–1883)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 79,799
- **Reading time:** 5 h 19 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 35 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 39 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 19 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 26 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47935
- LibriVox audiobook (9 h 15 min): https://librivox.org/fathers-and-sons-by-ivan-turgenev/

## 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

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47935 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24519774W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47935

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/fathers-and-sons