# Herland

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has 53,073 words.

## At a glance

1915 novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

- **Author:** [Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://musael.com/books/authors/charlotte-perkins-gilman.md) (1860–1935)
- **First published:** 1915
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 53,073
- **Reading time:** 3 h 32 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 42 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 25 min | 9 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 32 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 57 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-perkins-gilman/herland
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 34 min): https://librivox.org/herland-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 52,201
- Chapters: 12
- Dialogue: 25% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-perkins-gilman/herland (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5739278
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herland_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2771987W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32

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

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