# The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney has 345,151 words.

## At a glance

Book by Philip Sidney.

- **Author:** [Philip Sidney](https://musael.com/books/authors/philip-sidney.md) (1554–1586)
- **Original language:** Early Modern English
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 345,151
- **Reading time:** 23 h 1 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 37 h 7 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 28 h 46 min | 58 days |
| 250 wpm | 23 h 1 min | 47 days |
| 300 wpm | 19 h 11 min | 39 days |

## Read or listen

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70854

## 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: 3
- Dialogue: 45% of the words are inside quotation marks

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70854 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4069405
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Countess_of_Pembroke%27s_Arcadia
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL673871W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70854

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-countess-of-pembrokes-arcadia