135,420words
- Pages
- 544paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003
- Reading time
- 9 h 2 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 14 h 34 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1859
Compared with other books
Longer than 64% of the other 366 books here.
Counted from the text
Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.
- Words in the text
- 135,945
- Chapters
- 47about 2,892 words each
- Dialogue
- 36%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 16.1 words
- Vocabulary
- 418 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 135,420 to 136,359 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- penguin.co.ukpages of this edition · ISBN 9780141439600
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is A Tale of Two Cities?
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has 135,420 words.
How many pages is A Tale of Two Cities?
544 pages in the paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read A Tale of Two Cities?
About 9 h 2 min at 250 words a minute, or 14 h 34 min as an audiobook.
Writing a book of your own?
Musael counts every chapter as you write, keeps the plan beside the draft and checks names and facts across the book.