# A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice has 82,145 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice](https://musael.com/books/authors/alice-caldwell-hegan-rice.md) (1870–1942)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 82,145
- **Reading time:** 5 h 29 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 50 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 51 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 29 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 34 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6635

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 82,145
- Chapters: 31
- Dialogue: 46% 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://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6635 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5306185W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6635

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-romance-of-billy-goat-hill