# Martin Eden

Martin Eden by Jack London has 139,320 words.

## At a glance

1909 novel by Jack London.

- **Author:** [Jack London](https://musael.com/books/authors/jack-london.md) (1876–1916)
- **First published:** 1909
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 139,320
- **Reading time:** 9 h 17 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 14 h 59 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 11 h 37 min | 24 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 17 min | 19 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 44 min | 16 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/martin-eden
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1056
- LibriVox audiobook (14 h 48 min): https://librivox.org/martin-eden-by-jack-london/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 139,411
- Chapters: 46
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/martin-eden (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1056 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317839
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Eden
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL144822W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1056

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

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