# Adam Bede

Adam Bede by George Eliot has 215,513 words.

## At a glance

1859 novel by George Eliot.

- **Author:** [George Eliot](https://musael.com/books/authors/george-eliot.md) (1819–1880)
- **First published:** 1859
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 215,513
- **Reading time:** 14 h 22 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 23 h 10 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 17 h 58 min | 36 days |
| 250 wpm | 14 h 22 min | 29 days |
| 300 wpm | 11 h 58 min | 24 days |

## Read or listen

Adam Bede is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/507
- LibriVox audiobook (20 h 35 min): https://librivox.org/adam-bede-by-george-eliot/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 215,513
- Chapters: 55
- Dialogue: 41% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 22.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/507 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2611046
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bede
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20935W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/507

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/adam-bede