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At a glance
- Author
- Linn Boyd Porter1851–1916
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Long80,000 to 120,000 words
How long it takes to read
About 5 h 23 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 41 min as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 6 h 43 min | 14 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 5 h 23 min | 11 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 4 h 29 min | 9 days |
A Black Adonis
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Counted from the text
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- Words in the text
- 80,684
- Chapters
- 30about 2,689 words each
- Dialogue
- 46%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 12.7 words
- Vocabulary
- 438 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
Where the numbers come from
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- gutenberg.orgword count
- openlibrary.orgcover and record
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Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.
Questions
How many words is A Black Adonis?
A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter has 80,684 words.
How long does it take to read A Black Adonis?
About 5 h 23 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 41 min as an audiobook.
How many days to read A Black Adonis at 30 minutes a day?
About 11 days at an average reading speed.
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