# Sartor Resartus

Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle has 80,101 words.

## At a glance

Book by Thomas Carlyle.

- **Author:** [Thomas Carlyle](https://musael.com/books/authors/thomas-carlyle.md) (1795–1881)
- **First published:** 1833
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 80,101
- **Reading time:** 5 h 20 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 37 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 41 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 20 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 27 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

Sartor Resartus is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-carlyle/sartor-resartus
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1051
- LibriVox audiobook (8 h 20 min): https://librivox.org/sartor-resartus-by-thomas-carlyle/

## 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: 33
- Dialogue: 64% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 30.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thomas-carlyle/sartor-resartus (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1051 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1134140
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartor_Resartus
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1064699W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1051

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/sartor-resartus