# Silas Marner

Silas Marner by George Eliot has 71,422 words.

## At a glance

Novel by George Eliot.

- **Author:** [George Eliot](https://musael.com/books/authors/george-eliot.md) (1819–1880)
- **First published:** 1861
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 71,422
- **Reading time:** 4 h 46 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 41 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 57 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 46 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 58 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-eliot/silas-marner
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/550
- LibriVox audiobook (6 h 46 min): https://librivox.org/silas-marner-by-george-eliot/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 71,527
- Chapters: 21
- Dialogue: 32% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 24.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-eliot/silas-marner (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/550 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q638327
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Marner
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20874W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/550

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/silas-marner