# The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim has 78,680 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Elizabeth von Arnim.

- **Author:** [Elizabeth Von Arnim](https://musael.com/books/authors/elizabeth-von-arnim.md) (1866–1941)
- **First published:** 1923
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** romance
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 78,680
- **Reading time:** 5 h 15 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 8 h 28 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 33 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 15 min | 11 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 22 min | 9 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elizabeth-von-arnim/the-enchanted-april
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16389

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 78,780
- Chapters: 22
- Dialogue: 12% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.8 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/elizabeth-von-arnim/the-enchanted-april (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16389 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18187988
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enchanted_April
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8202750W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16389

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-enchanted-april