# Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson has 38,001 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Samuel Johnson.

- **Author:** [Samuel Johnson](https://musael.com/books/authors/samuel-johnson.md) (1709–1784)
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 38,001
- **Reading time:** 2 h 32 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 10 min | 7 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 32 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 7 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/652
- LibriVox audiobook (5 h 31 min): https://librivox.org/rasselas-prince-of-abyssinia-by-samuel-johnson/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 38,001
- Chapters: 48
- Dialogue: 64% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 25.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/652 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3419875
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rasselas%2C_Prince_of_Abissinia
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4558936W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/652

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/rasselas-prince-of-abyssinia