355,432words
- Pages
- 1,088paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003
- Reading time
- 23 h 42 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 38 h 13 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1853
Compared with other books
Longer than 94% 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
- 355,456
- Chapters
- 67about 5,305 words each
- Dialogue
- 39%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 14.6 words
- Vocabulary
- 412 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 354,362 to 355,432 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- chaptify.netword count
- penguin.co.ukpages of this edition · ISBN 9780141439723
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is Bleak House?
Bleak House by Charles Dickens has 355,432 words.
How many pages is Bleak House?
1,088 pages in the paperback, Penguin Classics, 2003 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read Bleak House?
About 23 h 42 min at 250 words a minute, or 38 h 13 min as an audiobook.
Writing a book of your own?
Musael counts every chapter as you write, keeps the plan beside the draft and checks names and facts across the book.