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Thomas Carlyle1833Humorous fiction

Sartor Resartus

Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle has 80,101 words, about 5 h 20 min of reading.

words
80,101
Reading time
5 h 20 min
Listening time
8 h 37 min

Long Longer than 40% of the other 735 books here.

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At a glance

Book by Thomas Carlyle.

Author
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881
First published
1833
Original language
English
Readers
Adult
Length
Long80,000 to 120,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 5 h 20 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 37 min as an audiobook.

Reading speedWhole bookAt 30 minutes a day
Careful200 words a minute6 h 41 min14 days
Average250 words a minute5 h 20 min11 days
Fast300 words a minute4 h 27 min9 days

Sartor Resartus

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text
80,406
Chapters
33about 2,437 words each
Dialogue
64%of the words are inside quotation marks
Average sentence
30.9 words
Vocabulary
503 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

Questions

How many words is Sartor Resartus?

Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle has 80,101 words.

How long does it take to read Sartor Resartus?

About 5 h 20 min at 250 words a minute, or 8 h 37 min as an audiobook.

How many days to read Sartor Resartus at 30 minutes a day?

About 11 days at an average reading speed.

Who wrote Sartor Resartus?

Sartor Resartus was written by Thomas Carlyle and first published in 1833.

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