# Black Beauty

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell has 59,726 words.

## At a glance

1877 novel by Anna Sewell.

- **Author:** [Anna Sewell](https://musael.com/books/authors/anna-sewell.md) (1820–1878)
- **First published:** 1877
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 59,726
- **Reading time:** 3 h 59 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 25 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 59 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 59 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 19 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anna-sewell/black-beauty
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/271
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 43 min): https://librivox.org/black-beauty-by-anna-sewell-version-2/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 59,964
- Chapters: 7
- Dialogue: 41% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 23.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anna-sewell/black-beauty (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/271 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q880092
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Beauty
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15854658W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/271

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/black-beauty