587,287words
- Pages
- 1,296paperback, Vintage Classics, 2017
- Reading time
- 39 h 9 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 63 h 9 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1869
Compared with other books
Longer than 100% 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
- 565,120
- Chapters
- 365about 1,548 words each
- Dialogue
- 22%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 17 words
- Vocabulary
- 416 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 563,500 to 587,287 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- datarepository.wolframcloud.comword count
- penguin.co.ukpages of this edition · ISBN 9781784871949
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is War and Peace?
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy has 587,287 words.
How many pages is War and Peace?
1,296 pages in the paperback, Vintage Classics, 2017 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read War and Peace?
About 39 h 9 min at 250 words a minute, or 63 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.