George Eliot

How many words is Middlemarch?

Middlemarch by George Eliot has 316,059 words.

316,059words

Pages
950paperback, Simon & Brown, 2011
Reading time
21 h 4 minat 250 words a minute
Listening time
33 h 59 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
First published
1872

Compared with other books

Longer than 92% of the other 366 books here.

Counted from the text

Musael counted the Project Gutenberg text of this book. It can include a preface or notes, so the total can differ a little from the figure above.

Words in the text
318,522
Chapters
86about 3,704 words each
Dialogue
35%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
18.1 words
Vocabulary
436 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary

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Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 316,059 to 318,251 words.

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

Questions

How many words is Middlemarch?

Middlemarch by George Eliot has 316,059 words.

How many pages is Middlemarch?

950 pages in the paperback, Simon & Brown, 2011 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.

How long does it take to read Middlemarch?

About 21 h 4 min at 250 words a minute, or 33 h 59 min as an audiobook.

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