# The Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev has 85,720 words.

## At a glance

Novella by Ivan Turgenev.

- **Author:** [Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev](https://musael.com/books/authors/ivan-sergeevich-turgenev.md) (1818–1883)
- **First published:** 1860
- **Original language:** Russian
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 85,720
- **Reading time:** 5 h 43 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 13 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 9 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 43 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 46 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9911

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 85,720
- Dialogue: 25% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9911 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189993
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Love_%28Turgenev_novella%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16785219W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9911

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-torrents-of-spring