Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge

At a glance

Author

Pemberton Ginther1869–1959

Genre

Children fiction

Readers

Middle grade

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 2 h 41 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h 19 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

40,186

Chapters

17about 2,364 words each

Dialogue

40%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

16.5 words

Vocabulary

450 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.orgbook record

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.

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