# One of the Six Hundred

One of the Six Hundred by James Grant has 163,383 words.

## At a glance

1875 novel by James Grant.

- **Author:** [James Grant](https://musael.com/books/authors/james-grant.md) (1822–1887)
- **First published:** 1875
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 163,383
- **Reading time:** 10 h 54 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 34 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 37 min | 28 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 54 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 5 min | 19 days |

## Read or listen

One of the Six Hundred is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55179

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 163,383
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 25.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55179 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124085766
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL29482841W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55179

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/one-of-the-six-hundred