# A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe has 94,718 words.

## At a glance

Historical novel by Daniel Defoe.

- **Author:** [Daniel Defoe](https://musael.com/books/authors/daniel-defoe.md) (1660–1731)
- **First published:** 1722
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 94,718
- **Reading time:** 6 h 19 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 11 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 54 min | 16 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 19 min | 13 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 16 min | 11 days |

## Read or listen

A Journal of the Plague Year is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/daniel-defoe/a-journal-of-the-plague-year
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 94,739

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/daniel-defoe/a-journal-of-the-plague-year (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1215399
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journal_of_the_Plague_Year
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24856150W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-journal-of-the-plague-year