# Main Street

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis has 167,361 words.

## At a glance

1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis.

- **Author:** [Sinclair Lewis](https://musael.com/books/authors/sinclair-lewis.md) (1885–1951)
- **First published:** 1920
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 167,361
- **Reading time:** 11 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 18 h (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 57 min | 28 days |
| 250 wpm | 11 h 9 min | 23 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 18 min | 19 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sinclair-lewis/main-street
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/543
- LibriVox audiobook (18 h 25 min): https://librivox.org/main-street-by-sinclair-lewis/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 166,134
- Chapters: 39
- Dialogue: 42% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sinclair-lewis/main-street (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/543 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6736091
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL51117W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/543

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/main-street