Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

At a glance

Collection of short stories by Oscar Wilde.

Author

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

First published

1891

Original language

English

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Shortunder 40,000 words

Readers' rating

3.8 out of 5from 39 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 2 h 38 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 15 min as an audiobook.

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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

39,595

Chapters

16about 2,475 words each

Average sentence

18.2 words

Vocabulary

442 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.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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