Fyodor Dostoevsky

How many words is The Brothers Karamazov?

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky has 364,153 words.

364,153words

Pages
908hardcover, Simon & Brown, 2018
Reading time
24 h 17 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
39 h 9 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1880

Compared with other books

Longer than 94% of the other 366 books here.

Counted from the text

Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.

Words in the text
351,267
Chapters
96about 3,659 words each
Dialogue
55%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
13.9 words
Vocabulary
394 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

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Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 349,853 to 364,153 words.

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

Questions

How many words is The Brothers Karamazov?

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky has 364,153 words.

How many pages is The Brothers Karamazov?

908 pages in the hardcover, Simon & Brown, 2018 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read The Brothers Karamazov?

About 24 h 17 min at 250 words a minute, or 39 h 9 min as an audiobook.

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