# McTeague

McTeague by Frank Norris has 113,384 words.

## At a glance

1899 novel by Frank Norris.

- **Author:** [Frank Norris](https://musael.com/books/authors/frank-norris.md) (1870–1902)
- **First published:** 1899
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 113,384
- **Reading time:** 7 h 34 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 12 h 12 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 27 min | 19 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 34 min | 16 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 18 min | 13 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frank-norris/mcteague
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/165
- LibriVox audiobook (10 h 43 min): https://librivox.org/mcteague-by-frank-norris/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 112,632
- Chapters: 22
- Dialogue: 25% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frank-norris/mcteague (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/165 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11772710
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McTeague
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1794911W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/165

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/mcteague