# A Room with a View

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

## At a glance

1908 novel by E. M. Forster.

- **Author:** [E. M. Forster](https://musael.com/books/authors/e-m-forster.md) (1879–1970)
- **First published:** 1908
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 67,007
- **Reading time:** 4 h 28 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 12 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 35 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 28 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 43 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

A Room with a View is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/a-room-with-a-view
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2641

## 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: 20
- Dialogue: 45% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 10.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/a-room-with-a-view (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2641 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120288
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL88813W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2641

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-room-with-a-view