# A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway has 88,483 words.

## At a glance

1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway.

- **Author:** [Ernest Hemingway](https://musael.com/books/authors/ernest-hemingway.md) (1899–1961)
- **First published:** 1929
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 88,483
- **Reading time:** 5 h 54 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 31 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 22 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 54 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 55 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemingway/a-farewell-to-arms
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75201

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 88,685
- Chapters: 41
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 8.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemingway/a-farewell-to-arms (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75201 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235795
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL63072W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75201

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-farewell-to-arms