# Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon has 149,599 words.

## At a glance

1862 novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

- **Author:** [M. E. Braddon](https://musael.com/books/authors/m-e-braddon.md) (1835–1915)
- **First published:** 1862
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** thriller
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 149,599
- **Reading time:** 9 h 58 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 16 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 28 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 58 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 19 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

Lady Audley's Secret is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/m-e-braddon/lady-audleys-secret
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954
- LibriVox audiobook (14 h 17 min): https://librivox.org/lady-audleys-secret-by-mary-elizabeth-braddon/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 149,666
- Chapters: 41
- Dialogue: 43% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/m-e-braddon/lady-audleys-secret (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2738351
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Audley%27s_Secret
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1490133W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8954

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/lady-audleys-secret