# Sketches New and Old

Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain has 97,982 words.

## At a glance

Short story collection by Mark Twain.

- **Author:** [Mark Twain](https://musael.com/books/authors/mark-twain.md) (1835–1910)
- **First published:** 1875
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 97,982
- **Reading time:** 6 h 32 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 32 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 10 min | 17 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 32 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 27 min | 11 days |

## Read or listen

Sketches New and Old is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3189
- LibriVox audiobook (10 h 34 min): https://librivox.org/sketches-new-and-old-by-mark-twain/

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 97,982
- Chapters: 13
- Dialogue: 31% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 21 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3189 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3058638
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_New_and_Old
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL413644W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3189

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/sketches-new-and-old