# The Four Million

The Four Million by O. Henry has 52,266 words.

## At a glance

Collection of short stories by O. Henry.

- **Author:** [O. Henry](https://musael.com/books/authors/o-henry.md) (1862–1910)
- **First published:** 1906
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 52,266
- **Reading time:** 3 h 29 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 37 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 4 h 21 min | 9 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 29 min | 7 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 54 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2776

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 52,266
- Dialogue: 30% 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/2776 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7735024
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Million
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL181960W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2776

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-four-million