77,157words
- Pages
- 256paperback, Signet Classics, 2008
- Reading time
- 5 h 9 minat 250 words a minute
- Listening time
- 8 h 18 minaudiobook pace, 155 words a minute
- First published
- 1817
Compared with other books
Longer than 31% 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
- 77,611
- Chapters
- 31about 2,504 words each
- Dialogue
- 38%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 19.8 words
- Vocabulary
- 424 different words in every 1,000higher means a more varied vocabulary
Where the numbers come from
The word count comes from the sources below. Sources give 77,157 to 77,464 words.
- arbookfind.comword count
- standardebooks.orgword count
- openlibrary.orgpages of this edition · ISBN 9780451530844
Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.
Questions
How many words is Northanger Abbey?
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen has 77,157 words.
How many pages is Northanger Abbey?
256 pages in the paperback, Signet Classics, 2008 edition. Other editions have more or fewer pages for the same text.
How long does it take to read Northanger Abbey?
About 5 h 9 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 18 min as an audiobook.
Writing a book of your own?
Musael counts every chapter as you write, keeps the plan beside the draft and checks names and facts across the book.