# The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton has 130,207 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Edith Wharton.

- **Author:** [Edith Wharton](https://musael.com/books/authors/edith-wharton.md) (1862–1937)
- **First published:** 1905
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 130,207
- **Reading time:** 8 h 41 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 14 h (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 10 h 51 min | 22 days |
| 250 wpm | 8 h 41 min | 18 days |
| 300 wpm | 7 h 14 min | 15 days |

## Read or listen

The House of Mirth is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edith-wharton/the-house-of-mirth
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/284

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 130,372
- Chapters: 29
- Dialogue: 26% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 20.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edith-wharton/the-house-of-mirth (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/284 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6474536
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Mirth
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98587W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/284

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-house-of-mirth