# The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower by Phyllis Bottome has 68,501 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Phyllis Bottome](https://musael.com/books/authors/phyllis-bottome.md) (1882–1963)
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 68,501
- **Reading time:** 4 h 34 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 22 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 43 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 34 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 48 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25829

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 68,501
- Chapters: 31
- Dialogue: 34% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.4 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25829 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1203197W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25829

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-dark-tower-bottome