# Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens has 325,379 words.

## At a glance

Monthly serial; novel by Charles Dickens; published 1838–1839.

- **Author:** [Charles Dickens](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dickens.md) (1812–1870)
- **First published:** 1839
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 325,379
- **Reading time:** 21 h 42 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 34 h 59 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 27 h 7 min | 55 days |
| 250 wpm | 21 h 42 min | 44 days |
| 300 wpm | 18 h 5 min | 37 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/nicholas-nickleby
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/967
- LibriVox audiobook (31 h 35 min): https://librivox.org/nicholas-nickleby-version-4-by-charles-dickens/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 322,506
- Chapters: 65
- Average sentence: 17.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/nicholas-nickleby (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/967 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q847642
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Nickleby
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13114895W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/967

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/nicholas-nickleby