# A Spoil of Office

A Spoil of Office by Hamlin Garland has 81,480 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Hamlin Garland](https://musael.com/books/authors/hamlin-garland.md) (1860–1940)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 81,480
- **Reading time:** 5 h 26 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 46 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 47 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 26 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 32 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

A Spoil of Office is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26189

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 81,480
- Chapters: 6
- Dialogue: 33% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26189 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1795410W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26189

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-spoil-of-office