# Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller by Henry James has 21,331 words.

## At a glance

Novella by Henry James.

- **Author:** [Henry James](https://musael.com/books/authors/henry-james.md) (1843–1916)
- **First published:** 1879
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 21,331
- **Reading time:** 1 h 25 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 2 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 1 h 47 min | 4 days |
| 250 wpm | 1 h 25 min | 3 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 11 min | 3 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/208

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 21,331
- Dialogue: 40% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/208 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q574887
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Miller
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL276328W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/208

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/daisy-miller