Cover of A Room with a View

E. M. Forster1908Humorous fiction

A Room with a View

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster has 67,007 words, about 4 h 28 min of reading.

words
67,007
Reading time
4 h 28 min
Listening time
7 h 12 min

Standard Longer than 28% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

1908 novel by E. M. Forster.

Author
E. M. Forster1879–1970
First published
1908
Original language
British English
Readers
Adult
Length
Standard40,000 to 80,000 words
Readers' rating
3.6 out of 5from 225 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 28 min at 250 words a minute, or 7 h 12 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute5 h 35 min12 days
Average250 words a minute4 h 28 min9 days
Fast300 words a minute3 h 43 min8 days

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text
67,224
Chapters
20about 3,361 words each
Dialogue
45%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
10.6 words
Vocabulary
438 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

Questions

How many words is A Room with a View?

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster has 67,007 words.

How long does it take to read A Room with a View?

About 4 h 28 min at 250 words a minute, or 7 h 12 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read A Room with a View at 30 minutes a day?

About 9 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote A Room with a View?

A Room with a View was written by E. M. Forster and first published in 1908.

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