# The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy has 320,170 words.

## At a glance

Three novels by John Galsworthy.

- **Author:** [John Galsworthy](https://musael.com/books/authors/john-galsworthy.md) (1867–1933)
- **First published:** 1906
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 320,170
- **Reading time:** 21 h 21 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 34 h 26 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 26 h 41 min | 54 days |
| 250 wpm | 21 h 21 min | 43 days |
| 300 wpm | 17 h 47 min | 36 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-galsworthy/the-forsyte-saga
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4397

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 320,866
- Chapters: 78
- Dialogue: 22% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 14.3 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-galsworthy/the-forsyte-saga (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4397 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735319
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forsyte_Saga
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL878774W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4397

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-forsyte-saga