Howards End

At a glance

Author

E. M. Forster1879–1970

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Long80,000 to 120,000 words

Readers' rating

3.7 out of 5from 115 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 7 h 18 min at 250 words a minute, or 11 h 46 min as an audiobook.

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Compared with other books

The books closest in length, and a few well-known ones for scale.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

108,757

Chapters

44about 2,472 words each

Dialogue

43%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

11.1 words

Vocabulary

449 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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