# The Possessed

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky has 253,740 words.

## At a glance

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

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 253,740
- **Reading time:** 16 h 55 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 27 h 17 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 21 h 9 min | 43 days |
| 250 wpm | 16 h 55 min | 34 days |
| 300 wpm | 14 h 6 min | 29 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8117

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 253,740
- Chapters: 23
- Dialogue: 47% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8117 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329989
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL166898W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8117

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-possessed