# Linnet

Linnet by Grant Allen has 142,612 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Grant Allen](https://musael.com/books/authors/grant-allen.md) (1848–1899)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 142,612
- **Reading time:** 9 h 30 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 15 h 20 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 11 h 53 min | 24 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 30 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 55 min | 16 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48296

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 142,612
- Chapters: 52
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48296 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1797167W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48296

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

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