# A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce has 84,818 words.

## At a glance

1918 autobiographical artist's novel and bildungsroman by James Joyce.

- **Author:** [James Joyce](https://musael.com/books/authors/james-joyce.md) (1882–1941)
- **First published:** 1918
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 84,818
- **Reading time:** 5 h 39 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 4 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 39 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 43 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-joyce/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 84,872
- Chapters: 5
- Average sentence: 15.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-joyce/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465360
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL86343W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man