# We

We by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin has 64,131 words.

## At a glance

1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

- **Author:** [Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin](https://musael.com/books/authors/evgenii-ivanovich-zamiatin.md) (1884–1937)
- **First published:** 1924
- **Original language:** Russian
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 64,131
- **Reading time:** 4 h 17 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 54 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 21 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 17 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 34 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61963

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 64,131
- Dialogue: 20% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61963 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83799
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL43508575W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61963

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/we