# O Pioneers!

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather has 55,616 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Willa Cather.

- **Author:** [Willa Cather](https://musael.com/books/authors/willa-cather.md) (1873–1947)
- **First published:** 1913
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 55,616
- **Reading time:** 3 h 42 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 59 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 38 min | 10 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 42 min | 8 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 5 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

O Pioneers! is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/willa-cather/o-pioneers
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 48 min): https://librivox.org/o-pioneers-by-willa-cather/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 55,704
- Chapters: 6
- Dialogue: 38% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/willa-cather/o-pioneers (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2008343
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Pioneers%21
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12795W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/o-pioneers