# Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky has 44,193 words.

## At a glance

1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

- **Author:** [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://musael.com/books/authors/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md) (1821–1881)
- **First published:** 1864
- **Original language:** Russian
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 44,193
- **Reading time:** 2 h 57 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 45 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 41 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 57 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 27 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

Notes from the Underground is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 6 min): https://librivox.org/notes-from-the-underground-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 44,193
- Chapters: 3
- Dialogue: 23% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q695116
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Underground
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL166934W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/notes-from-the-underground