# A Victor of Salamis

A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis has 123,465 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [William Stearns Davis](https://musael.com/books/authors/william-stearns-davis.md) (1877–1930)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 123,465
- **Reading time:** 8 h 14 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 13 h 17 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 17 min | 21 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 14 min | 17 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 52 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27587

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 123,465
- Chapters: 44
- Dialogue: 35% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 12.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27587 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL178518W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27587

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-victor-of-salamis