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Frances Hodgson Burnett1885Children fiction

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett has 58,593 words, about 3 h 54 min of reading.

words
58,593
Reading time
3 h 54 min
Listening time
6 h 18 min

Standard Longer than 21% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924
First published
1885
Original language
English
Length
Standard40,000 to 80,000 words
Readers' rating
3.9 out of 5from 45 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 3 h 54 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 18 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute4 h 53 min10 days
Average250 words a minute3 h 54 min8 days
Fast300 words a minute3 h 15 min7 days

Little Lord Fauntleroy

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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
58,427
Dialogue
33%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
15.7 words
Vocabulary
393 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.

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.

Questions

How many words is Little Lord Fauntleroy?

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett has 58,593 words.

How long does it take to read Little Lord Fauntleroy?

About 3 h 54 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 18 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read Little Lord Fauntleroy at 30 minutes a day?

About 8 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy?

Little Lord Fauntleroy was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1885.

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