# The Country of the Pointed Firs

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett has 42,077 words.

## At a glance

Short story sequence.

- **Author:** [Sarah Orne Jewett](https://musael.com/books/authors/sarah-orne-jewett.md) (1849–1909)
- **First published:** 1896
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 42,077
- **Reading time:** 2 h 48 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 31 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 30 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 48 min | 6 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 20 min | 5 days |

## Read or listen

The Country of the Pointed Firs is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sarah-orne-jewett/the-country-of-the-pointed-firs
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/367

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 42,402
- Dialogue: 46% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/sarah-orne-jewett/the-country-of-the-pointed-firs (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/367 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7727811
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Pointed_Firs
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL67238W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/367

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-country-of-the-pointed-firs