Resurrection

At a glance

1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy.

Author

Leo graf Tolstoy1828–1910

First published

1899

Original language

Russian

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Very long120,000 to 200,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 11 h 32 min at 250 words a minute, or 18 h 36 min as an audiobook.

Compared with other books

The books closest in length, and a few well-known ones for scale.

1. 1War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy587,287Compare
2. 2The Fellowship of the RingJ. R. R. Tolkien177,227Compare
3. 3The Man in the Iron MaskAlexandre Dumas173,808Compare
4. 4The Waste LandsStephen King173,489Compare
5. 5ResurrectionLeo graf Tolstoy172,907
6. 6NostromoJoseph Conrad170,864Compare
7. 7Forest DaysG. P. R. James169,697Compare
8. 8Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen121,970Compare
9. 9Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling76,944Compare
10. 10The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald47,094Compare

Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

173,045

Chapters

129about 1,341 words each

Dialogue

26%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

17.8 words

Vocabulary

409 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.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

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

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