# A Little Princess

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett has 67,327 words.

## At a glance

1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

- **Author:** [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://musael.com/books/authors/frances-hodgson-burnett.md) (1849–1924)
- **First published:** 1905
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 67,327
- **Reading time:** 4 h 29 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 14 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 37 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 29 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 44 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/a-little-princess
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/146

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 66,424
- Dialogue: 34% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/a-little-princess (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/146 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10483376
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Princess
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL69630W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/146

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-little-princess