# Martin Chuzzlewit

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens has 337,951 words.

## At a glance

Monthly serial; novel by Charles Dickens; published 1843–1844.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1844
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 337,951
- **Reading time:** 22 h 32 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 36 h 20 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 28 h 10 min | 57 days |
| 250 wpm | 22 h 32 min | 46 days |
| 300 wpm | 18 h 47 min | 38 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/968
- LibriVox audiobook (33 h 35 min): https://librivox.org/martin-chuzzlewit-version-3-by-charles-dickens/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 336,935
- Chapters: 54
- Average sentence: 17.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/968 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1903609
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chuzzlewit
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14869242W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/968

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/martin-chuzzlewit