# Only a Girl's Love

Only a Girl's Love by Charles Garvice has 148,376 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Charles Garvice](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-garvice.md) (1850–1920)
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 148,376
- **Reading time:** 9 h 54 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 15 h 57 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 12 h 22 min | 25 days |
| 250 wpm | 9 h 54 min | 20 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 15 min | 17 days |

## Read or listen

Only a Girl's Love is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53416

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 148,376
- Chapters: 42
- Dialogue: 40% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53416 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15558013W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53416

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/only-a-girls-love