# Little Lord Fauntleroy

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

## At a glance

Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

- **Author:** [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://musael.com/books/authors/frances-hodgson-burnett.md) (1849–1924)
- **First published:** 1885
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 58,593
- **Reading time:** 3 h 54 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 18 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 53 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 54 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 15 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/little-lord-fauntleroy
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/479
- LibriVox audiobook (6 h 26 min): https://librivox.org/little-lord-fauntleroy-by-frances-hodgson-burnett/

## 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

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frances-hodgson-burnett/little-lord-fauntleroy (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/479 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q387480
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL69625W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/479

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/little-lord-fauntleroy