# The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery has 69,287 words.

## At a glance

1926 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

- **Author:** [L. M. Montgomery](https://musael.com/books/authors/l-m-montgomery.md) (1874–1942)
- **First published:** 1926
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 69,287
- **Reading time:** 4 h 37 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 27 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 46 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 37 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 51 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/l-m-montgomery/the-blue-castle
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 69,475
- Chapters: 45
- Dialogue: 32% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/l-m-montgomery/the-blue-castle (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7718738
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Castle
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL77775W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-blue-castle