# Memoirs of Fanny Hill

Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland has 84,621 words.

## At a glance

1748 novel by John Cleland.

- **Author:** [John Cleland](https://musael.com/books/authors/john-cleland.md) (1709–1789)
- **First published:** 1748
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 84,621
- **Reading time:** 5 h 38 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 6 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 3 min | 15 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 38 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 42 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

Memoirs of Fanny Hill is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 84,621
- Dialogue: 12% of the words are inside quotation marks

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395765
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL848436W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/memoirs-of-fanny-hill