# The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald has 124,700 words.

## At a glance

1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

- **Author:** [F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://musael.com/books/authors/f-scott-fitzgerald.md) (1896–1940)
- **First published:** 1922
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 124,700
- **Reading time:** 8 h 19 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 13 h 25 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 24 min | 21 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 19 min | 17 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 56 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

The Beautiful and Damned is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-beautiful-and-damned
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 123,679
- Chapters: 9
- Dialogue: 25% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-beautiful-and-damned (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2531205
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_and_Damned
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL468362W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-beautiful-and-damned