# Flatland

Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott has 33,546 words.

## At a glance

1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott.

- **Author:** [Edwin Abbott Abbott](https://musael.com/books/authors/edwin-abbott-abbott.md) (1838–1926)
- **First published:** 1884
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 33,546
- **Reading time:** 2 h 14 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 36 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 48 min | 6 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 14 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 52 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwin-a-abbott/flatland
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 34,170
- Chapters: 4
- Dialogue: 17% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 24.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwin-a-abbott/flatland (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728312
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL118388W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201

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

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