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
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 349,853 to 364,153 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- openlibrary.orgpages of this edition · ISBN 9781731705525
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.
Writing a book of your own?
Musael counts every chapter as you write, keeps the plan beside the draft and checks names and facts across the book.

