L. M. Montgomery

How many words is Anne of Green Gables?

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery has 97,364 words.

97,364words

Pages
384paperback, Puffin, 2009
Reading time
6 h 29 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
10 h 28 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1908

Book 1 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 45% 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
102,541
Chapters
38about 2,698 words each
Dialogue
59%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
13.9 words
Vocabulary
428 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 4,370 to 102,897 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Anne of Green Gables?

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery has 97,364 words.

How many pages is Anne of Green Gables?

384 pages in the paperback, Puffin, 2009 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Anne of Green Gables?

About 6 h 29 min at 250 words a minute, or 10 h 28 min as an audiobook.

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