# In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett has 125,997 words.

## At a glance

1899 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

- **Author:** [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://musael.com/books/authors/frances-hodgson-burnett.md) (1849–1924)
- **First published:** 1899
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 125,997
- **Reading time:** 8 h 24 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 13 h 33 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 30 min | 21 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 24 min | 17 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h | 14 days |

## Read or listen

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25810

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 125,997
- Chapters: 42
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25810 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124083824
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL69686W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25810

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/in-connection-with-the-de-willoughby-claim