# Catriona

Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson has 101,000 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- **Author:** [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://musael.com/books/authors/robert-louis-stevenson.md) (1850–1894)
- **First published:** 1893
- **Original language:** Scots
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 101,000
- **Reading time:** 6 h 44 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 52 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 25 min | 17 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 44 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 37 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/catriona
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/589
- LibriVox audiobook (11 h 4 min): https://librivox.org/catriona-by-robert-louis-stevenson/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 101,305
- Chapters: 30
- Dialogue: 44% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/catriona (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/589 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2277829
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catriona_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24070W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/589

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/catriona