# The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton has 101,823 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Edith Wharton.

- **Author:** [Edith Wharton](https://musael.com/books/authors/edith-wharton.md) (1862–1937)
- **First published:** 1920
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 101,823
- **Reading time:** 6 h 47 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 57 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 29 min | 17 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 47 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 39 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

The Age of Innocence is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edith-wharton/the-age-of-innocence
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/541

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 101,346
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edith-wharton/the-age-of-innocence (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/541 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045464
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98491W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/541

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-age-of-innocence