# A Passage to India

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster has 100,969 words.

## At a glance

1924 novel by E. M. Forster.

- **Author:** [E. M. Forster](https://musael.com/books/authors/e-m-forster.md) (1879–1970)
- **First published:** 1924
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 100,969
- **Reading time:** 6 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 51 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 25 min | 17 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 44 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 37 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/a-passage-to-india
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 102,054
- Chapters: 37
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/a-passage-to-india (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622303
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passage_to_India
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL88809W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-passage-to-india