L. M. Montgomery

How many words is Anne of Avonlea?

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery has 85,006 words.

85,006words

Pages
276paperback, Bantam Books, 1992
Reading time
5 h 40 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
9 h 8 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1909

Book 2 of 8 in Anne of Green Gables

  1. 1Anne of Green Gables97,364
  2. 2Anne of Avonlea85,006
  3. 3Anne of the Island73,623
  4. 4Anne's House of Dreams78,579
  5. 5Rainbow Valley80,072
  6. 6Rilla of Ingleside91,610
  7. 7Anne of Windy Poplars86,032
  8. 8Anne of Ingleside98,856

All of Anne of Green Gables: 691,142 words

Compared with other books

Longer than 36% 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
88,875
Dialogue
59%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
12.8 words
Vocabulary
435 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

Read it free on Project Gutenberg

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 85,006 to 88,685 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Anne of Avonlea?

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery has 85,006 words.

How many pages is Anne of Avonlea?

276 pages in the paperback, Bantam Books, 1992 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Anne of Avonlea?

About 5 h 40 min at 250 words a minute, or 9 h 8 min as an audiobook.

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