The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

At a glance

Book by Philip Sidney.

Author

Philip Sidney1554–1586

Original language

Early Modern English

Genre

Adventure

Readers

Adult

Length

Epic200,000 words or more

How long it takes to read

About 23 h 1 min at 250 words a minute, or 37 h 7 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

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

Words in the text

345,151

Chapters

3about 115,050 words each

Dialogue

45%of the words are inside quotation marks

Vocabulary

442 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgbook record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

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

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