Mary Barton

At a glance

Author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell1810–1865

Genre

Romance

Readers

Adult

Length

Very long120,000 to 200,000 words

Readers' rating

3.4 out of 5from 28 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 10 h 48 min at 250 words a minute, or 17 h 26 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

162,076

Chapters

38about 4,265 words each

Dialogue

37%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

17.9 words

Vocabulary

438 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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