# A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain has 118,328 words.

## At a glance

1889 novel by Mark Twain.

- **Author:** [Mark Twain](https://musael.com/books/authors/mark-twain.md) (1835–1910)
- **First published:** 1889
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** fantasy
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 118,328
- **Reading time:** 7 h 53 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 12 h 43 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 52 min | 20 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 53 min | 16 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 34 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 117,679
- Chapters: 44
- Dialogue: 27% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q848612
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL54031W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court