# The Coming Wave

The Coming Wave by Oliver Optic has 65,697 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Oliver Optic.

- **Author:** [Oliver Optic](https://musael.com/books/authors/oliver-optic.md) (1822–1897)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 65,697
- **Reading time:** 4 h 23 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 4 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 28 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 23 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 39 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23773

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 65,697
- Chapters: 18
- Dialogue: 33% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23773 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75551577
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23361621W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23773

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-coming-wave